Isolation: A Cursed Soul

by Kate Bowyer

Today the world inhabits nearly 7 billion people each going about their lives. The one thing they all have in common is they're born with a soul. It's not something they think about while they play atop the jungle-gym, eat lunch in an outdoor cafe or drive around town scratching off their list of errands, but it's in peril with every conscience and unconscious choice they make.

What everyone must understand, is what you don't see can hurt you. For there are unseen angels and demons who fight costly battles over the possibility of grabbing the latest soul that leaks out of the dead.

The tale is much different for those who invite these beings into the open for they don't understand what they are unleashing.

In 1976, on a quiet suburban street, an old woman ravaged by disease cries out for help needing her suffering to end. A demon has come to answer her call, one who has been skulking around the house attracted to the pain radiating from it. As the demon takes her soul, he stiffens as the old woman’s love for her grandchild rolls over him.

The bedroom door creaks as it opens without aid of a hand. The demon's hunger has started again.

Christian sleeps as sound as a lamb as his dog Rowdy raises his head in the darkness.

This is Christian's story.





Message from the author:

I wanted to share with you a few thoughts about the story Isolation. It's a dark story throwing a young boy and his family into a life they never asked for. But isn't that how life works sometimes? Bad things happen to good people every day. Though in Christian's story we also see how the paranormal shapes his life. Throughout it all he is challenged by good and evil, which we all face on a daily basis.

In case you're wondering I'm not practicing any religion though I did grow up Catholic, which is why I choose to have the Catholic influence here in this book. If asked I would not say this is a religious book but rather a story about people needing love and facing fear and the unknown in their own ways.

Please know that if you don't like dark horror with controversial or sensitive subjects like bullying, religion, mental health issues, and child abuse, than this may not be for you.

I appreciate you giving me your time and I always welcome your feedback.

With warm regards,
Kate Bowyer

335 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 15, 2011

About the author

I have released my first Non-fiction book titled, "How I Quit Email & Followed My Dreams".

This book will connect with anyone who has let something stand in their way of doing what they want in life.

The book covers my perils of how Email took over my life, to how I was able to let it go, to giving you specific examples of how you can control your inbox and take back all those precious minutes you have wasted on other people's dreams.

I am now working on more books (both fiction and non-fiction), editing and updating current ones and writing screenplays.

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I'm very happy when I have a book in my hand. That's why I love Goodreads, because I get to see what my friends are reading, keep a TBR list and talk with other readers.

I read all genres, it's one of the things that keeps the spice in my life. Come and talk books with me, I'd love to hear from you.

Reviews

[Nora aka Diva · Rating 3 out of 5]

This novel has some spelling errors, trouble with homophones( words that sound alike but are spelled and defined differently)but overall it that doesn't hurt the storyline.
As a recovering catholic* I did try to figure out the authors religious bakground since this novel is VERY Deeply religion themed. It is a relatively good suspense novel although not well founded in reality. The police would not have bushed off the concerned phone calls so easily for starters. At times the religious theme did get a little heavy handed but only briefly here and there. Anyway, It was a fun, easy read. I enjoyed reading this and I don't even believe that angels or demons exist outside of the human imagination. Yet, even with the problems I can say this was worth the 45 minutes it took me to read. :)
Do I consider this to be a horror novel? No but I don't find it utterly horrorfying to think that there are people out there who do believe that demons can possess people and things like that.













* Recovering Catholic is like a recovering alcoholic except the recovering Catholic isn't trying to rebuild their life from alcoholism but from the negative effects of Catholism.

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have to be up front and say I only made it halfway through this book. I almost quit about half a dozen times before that but really wanted to give this book a chance, waiting for the "good stuff" to come along. It just never got to it. This book is supposed to be about possession, dark horror, religion. I saw the religion part of it but there was no horror for me here. Some of my favorite books are The Omen and Rosemary's Baby, so when this book had been compared to The Omen and I saw the reviews, I was eager to read it. I found this book very slow, the scenes would build up and then fizzle. If it weren't for the angels being characters in the book, I would say this book was just about a dysfunctional family who had many tragedies in their lives. In The Omen, it was extremely obvious when people were killed because of the demons; in this book, these kinds of tragedies happen every day to everday people. Maybe there was more awaiting me after page 132, but I just could not make it any further; I do apologize for that. I have a 100 page rule--if I am not interested after 100 pages, the book is not for me. I just have too many other books on my Kindle to read.