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The Aurora Affair
Supermodel-turned-artist Madeline LaRue has been suppressing her psychic gifts all her life. Now she’s stranded in a remote musicians’ enclave, called in by her twin sister to explain away some spooky goings-on that are more than merely spooky. Devout skeptic or not, Madeline has walked into a cosmic storm where, along with her sister, an ex-lover, and a charismatic New Age musician, she is targeted by forces she has always denied, and that only her artist’s eye can discern.
But the power to fight back lies dormant within her. Knowing that only true love can fuel that power and only passion can unleash it, Madeline must choose a mate from the four men besieging her heart and mind.
Love is bewildering at the best of times, but never with stakes like these. For the right choice will launch humanity into a new golden age, while any other will trigger a millennium of darkness. All depends on whether Madeline can face her fears -- no matter what cost.
But the power to fight back lies dormant within her. Knowing that only true love can fuel that power and only passion can unleash it, Madeline must choose a mate from the four men besieging her heart and mind.
Love is bewildering at the best of times, but never with stakes like these. For the right choice will launch humanity into a new golden age, while any other will trigger a millennium of darkness. All depends on whether Madeline can face her fears -- no matter what cost.
- GenresFantasy
446 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2009
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Carolyn Haley
6 books9 followersCarolyn Haley is a writer, editor, and reviewer living in northern New England. Through her business, DocuMania, she writes articles for regional and national magazines, and commercial copy for catalogues and websites. Mainly she helps other authors with diverse projects through editing, production, and education.
Ms. Haley began writing novels in her teens, and in adulthood found her niche in hybrid romance.
Cosmic Heart delves into questions about anomalies, spirituality, and reincarnation in a romantic suspense/metaphysical mystery that addresses how and why psychic power might relate to love and sex.
Wild Heart, an equestrian romance set on Cape Cod in 1975, tackles finding your authentic place in a world that’s set up to push you only one way or the other. The novel also addresses balancing dreams against the realities of love.
Her romantic mystery, Killer Heart, gets into why an ordinary woman might become a murderer—and get away with it in rural Vermont.
At the other end of the spectrum, Ms. Haley’s nonfiction book, Open Your Heart with Gardens, explores interacting with the living green world in all walks of life. It formed a volume in DreamTime Publishing’s Open Your Heart series, designed to help people master their lives through what they already know.
When not writing, Ms. Haley enjoys gardening, paddling, flying, riding, and birdwatching, along with autosports and spectating the arts. Her enduring passion, however, is books.
Ms. Haley began writing novels in her teens, and in adulthood found her niche in hybrid romance.
Cosmic Heart delves into questions about anomalies, spirituality, and reincarnation in a romantic suspense/metaphysical mystery that addresses how and why psychic power might relate to love and sex.
Wild Heart, an equestrian romance set on Cape Cod in 1975, tackles finding your authentic place in a world that’s set up to push you only one way or the other. The novel also addresses balancing dreams against the realities of love.
Her romantic mystery, Killer Heart, gets into why an ordinary woman might become a murderer—and get away with it in rural Vermont.
At the other end of the spectrum, Ms. Haley’s nonfiction book, Open Your Heart with Gardens, explores interacting with the living green world in all walks of life. It formed a volume in DreamTime Publishing’s Open Your Heart series, designed to help people master their lives through what they already know.
When not writing, Ms. Haley enjoys gardening, paddling, flying, riding, and birdwatching, along with autosports and spectating the arts. Her enduring passion, however, is books.
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March 26, 2017
The Aurora Affair, Carolyn Haley
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre: Romance,Sci-fi and fantasy
I was really pulled in by the blurb on this book, but it turned out to be nothing like I expected.
There's lots I enjoyed, but at times it got so over complicated that I was lost.
There's a lot of esoteric descriptions, flowery prose over psychic events, lots of inner musings about what's happening now, in the past and in the future and why, and how, and what possibilities there are to stop it.
And soulmates, Maddie is fixated on soulmates, whether Buck or Kit is destined to be with her, but maybe she has a connection with Dru too, and yet one more guy later in the book....You'd think Dru's girlfriend, Maddie's sister Blanche would have something to say, but she's just as open minded about who she should be with, and when and how long....Confused? You will be ;-)
You can see how complex just the sex parts get. Throw in the other characters that live at New Atlantis and a few more visions/premonitions/echoes of past lives, and at times its one big sex fest, but one where emotions as far as love are concerned just don't come into it.
I didn't really like any of the characters much, probably Kit's the only one I came close to feeling for, and it seems to me he gets swept along the psychic tide by accident. I felt the otrhers were rationlising much of their behavoiur telling themsleves, and others, it was for the common good.
Its really a story of the supernatural, of good versus evil, and of how governments are afraid of anything they can't understand, and will stop at nothing to keep control. That's scarily true and if this was real I think it would play out as described.
Its billed as Romance, but to me there's little actual romance, its more a question of "your chakra needs re-balancing/your aura is out of sync/you've too much negative energy/the tides are predicting this" ( or moon/stars/sun - take your pick) or simply "its a festival and I want you"....Everything becomes an excuse for some hot and steamy sex, but without the emotion and feelings of love for the individual that are needed for me. TBH that spoiled it for me.
Eventually after many false starts, and lots of failed attempts - and lots more sex - the Evil gets identified and pushed aside, but not at cost, and not without the sticky fingers of the Government getting involved.
That sets up another trap, possibly as dangerous as the Evil they've just overbalanced for now.
Its a very complex tale, lots of content and action - for me a little too much. I want a story where I can work out what's happening, and follow along with events, but there's so much psychic intervention here that it becomes impossible to predict events, to work out who, what, how and when.
I love paranormal stories but this one gets so over-complex that I found myself switching off sometimes, and just flicking past events trying to see what part that had actual relevance to the story came next.
I like a romance with characters I can get behind, a couple - or couples/trios - that I can want to be together, without all the sex with others muddying the way. I didn't really feel any actual romance in this story, until maybe close to the end. Speaking of endings – its very amiguous. Are there more books to come or is this it? I felt for a long while when starting that I'd jumped in to an existing series, and missed a book or two but I can't find anything else except this book.
Overall its an OK read for me, I just felt there was so much going on that the story, the message, got lost.
As for the romance, well, don't expect tenderness, hearts and flowers, but people who really don't know who they want to be with and end up trying - lots of times - before they buy!
Stars: Three, parts of it I liked, the idea I loved, the execution not so much.
ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre: Romance,Sci-fi and fantasy
I was really pulled in by the blurb on this book, but it turned out to be nothing like I expected.
There's lots I enjoyed, but at times it got so over complicated that I was lost.
There's a lot of esoteric descriptions, flowery prose over psychic events, lots of inner musings about what's happening now, in the past and in the future and why, and how, and what possibilities there are to stop it.
And soulmates, Maddie is fixated on soulmates, whether Buck or Kit is destined to be with her, but maybe she has a connection with Dru too, and yet one more guy later in the book....You'd think Dru's girlfriend, Maddie's sister Blanche would have something to say, but she's just as open minded about who she should be with, and when and how long....Confused? You will be ;-)
You can see how complex just the sex parts get. Throw in the other characters that live at New Atlantis and a few more visions/premonitions/echoes of past lives, and at times its one big sex fest, but one where emotions as far as love are concerned just don't come into it.
I didn't really like any of the characters much, probably Kit's the only one I came close to feeling for, and it seems to me he gets swept along the psychic tide by accident. I felt the otrhers were rationlising much of their behavoiur telling themsleves, and others, it was for the common good.
Its really a story of the supernatural, of good versus evil, and of how governments are afraid of anything they can't understand, and will stop at nothing to keep control. That's scarily true and if this was real I think it would play out as described.
Its billed as Romance, but to me there's little actual romance, its more a question of "your chakra needs re-balancing/your aura is out of sync/you've too much negative energy/the tides are predicting this" ( or moon/stars/sun - take your pick) or simply "its a festival and I want you"....Everything becomes an excuse for some hot and steamy sex, but without the emotion and feelings of love for the individual that are needed for me. TBH that spoiled it for me.
Eventually after many false starts, and lots of failed attempts - and lots more sex - the Evil gets identified and pushed aside, but not at cost, and not without the sticky fingers of the Government getting involved.
That sets up another trap, possibly as dangerous as the Evil they've just overbalanced for now.
Its a very complex tale, lots of content and action - for me a little too much. I want a story where I can work out what's happening, and follow along with events, but there's so much psychic intervention here that it becomes impossible to predict events, to work out who, what, how and when.
I love paranormal stories but this one gets so over-complex that I found myself switching off sometimes, and just flicking past events trying to see what part that had actual relevance to the story came next.
I like a romance with characters I can get behind, a couple - or couples/trios - that I can want to be together, without all the sex with others muddying the way. I didn't really feel any actual romance in this story, until maybe close to the end. Speaking of endings – its very amiguous. Are there more books to come or is this it? I felt for a long while when starting that I'd jumped in to an existing series, and missed a book or two but I can't find anything else except this book.
Overall its an OK read for me, I just felt there was so much going on that the story, the message, got lost.
As for the romance, well, don't expect tenderness, hearts and flowers, but people who really don't know who they want to be with and end up trying - lots of times - before they buy!
Stars: Three, parts of it I liked, the idea I loved, the execution not so much.
ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers
December 28, 2013
I would like to say that I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Although, it was free, my review will be totally honest.
I wanted to give this book a rating between a 3.5 and a 4, but you can't give half star ratings. Sometimes while I was reading, I really enjoyed the book a lot, but other times, I didn't. I didn't particularly like the ending. I was up and down constantly while reading.
I liked the story line. I think that's why I gave it a 4, but I didn't like the sex in the story plot. It was used to create paranormal situations, or to show how people were linked together, and that this linking might be from past or future life experiences.
The story is about Madeline, and it is told in the first person. She has an identical twin, Blanche. Blanche asks Madeline to come and assist her in the place she lives, which is called New Atlantis. Blanche is in a relationship with a rock star, Dru. New Atlantis is kind of a compound where quite a few people live and work together. Madeline or Mad is more grounded. She doesn't necessarily believe she can do supernatural things, but Blanche thinks she can. Blanche thinks there is a problem, and it isn't a good one, so she wants to see if Mad can find out what it is.
The story and the supernatural/paranormal is really interesting. The story is different than a lot of these types of stories, and I always like stories that are different. I really like the different aspects of the story and the relationships.
I would recommend this story, but be aware there are some sexual situations. The situations are not really graphic, but they are not between people who are in love with each other. And, I don't know that the reasons really make the story more relevant.
Other than that, I would say the book is a good story.
I wanted to give this book a rating between a 3.5 and a 4, but you can't give half star ratings. Sometimes while I was reading, I really enjoyed the book a lot, but other times, I didn't. I didn't particularly like the ending. I was up and down constantly while reading.
I liked the story line. I think that's why I gave it a 4, but I didn't like the sex in the story plot. It was used to create paranormal situations, or to show how people were linked together, and that this linking might be from past or future life experiences.
The story is about Madeline, and it is told in the first person. She has an identical twin, Blanche. Blanche asks Madeline to come and assist her in the place she lives, which is called New Atlantis. Blanche is in a relationship with a rock star, Dru. New Atlantis is kind of a compound where quite a few people live and work together. Madeline or Mad is more grounded. She doesn't necessarily believe she can do supernatural things, but Blanche thinks she can. Blanche thinks there is a problem, and it isn't a good one, so she wants to see if Mad can find out what it is.
The story and the supernatural/paranormal is really interesting. The story is different than a lot of these types of stories, and I always like stories that are different. I really like the different aspects of the story and the relationships.
I would recommend this story, but be aware there are some sexual situations. The situations are not really graphic, but they are not between people who are in love with each other. And, I don't know that the reasons really make the story more relevant.
Other than that, I would say the book is a good story.
February 20, 2014
Thank you Goodreads.com for this free book :)
I liked the book and the characters personalities. It is not exactly the type of book I read but it was a good read. This book starts out with action and continues to the end. Thank you
I liked the book and the characters personalities. It is not exactly the type of book I read but it was a good read. This book starts out with action and continues to the end. Thank you
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