Nine Generations of Gianna

by Loraine Hayes

Gianna is a 16-year-old girl who has experienced trauma in her earlier childhood. While being raised by her grandmother, Gianna has the chance to travel back in time to witness events that happened to her ancestors. This allows Gianna, and her grandmother, to learn family secrets and to explore the effects of generational trauma in their bloodline. They learn the reasons as to why their ancestors behaved the way they did, as well as why they behave the way that they currently do. The drama unfolds in unexpected and violent ways and the reader is taken on an emotional and dramatic journey that will show humanity's capacity to heal.

*Content This novel explores themes of psychology, mental health, and generational trauma and contains depictions of sexual violence, child abuse, domestic abuse, murder, pedophilia, crude language, and references to addiction. Please read with care.

Nine Generations of Gianna is a fiction novel with 330 pages. The recommended ages for this book is 18 and older.

Loraine Hayes is a licensed psychotherapist who is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She used her training and experience to guide her in the writing of this thrilling fictional novel.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2023

About the author

Loraine Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional with over 25 years’ experience as a psychotherapist. As a result, Loraine saw first hand how a resilient child can grow into a healthy and confident adult. By introducing simple lessons to children, their resilience can grow. To that end, Loraine set out to create a children’s chapter book series (Small Fry Spy Club) that could impart those lessons for children in a fun and exciting way.

Additionally, Loraine used her skill as an author and illustrator to create a children’s chapter book series that would help children navigate life with confidence, kindness to others, and self-respect. With this in mind, she created a group of diverse characters with which children could relate. Each of the characters uses their unique qualities to become positive role models to children. However, when the characters work together, they are an unstoppable group of friends! Visit www.SmallFrySpyClub.com to learn more.

Also, Loraine Hayes has used her training and experience to write a young adult fiction novel called "Nine Generations of Gianna". The book addresses the effects of generational trauma throughout the generations. Although it is a fictional novel, Loraine used her training and experience to explain the effects of trauma and how a person can facilitate healing.

Reviews

[Denise Benzenhoefer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. Interesting to learn about generational trauma and it was presented in a page turning and thrilling manner. While some of the content was at times hard subject matter, it was presented in a respectful manner. I recommend this as an easy and thrilling read.

[Jennifer Hopkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon Kindle for the opportunity to read this story.

This just wasn’t for me. The plot was too convenient? It was interesting to see how the trauma of one generation impacts the next, yet I had trouble buying that the main character was not very affected by everything that happened to her family and to her. It’s neat and tidy and would make a nice Hallmark or Lifetime movie. As you can tell from other reviews, it works for a lot of people.

[Sandy Hayes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished this book and I’m in tears. I love the overall theme of healing ancestral trauma mixed with communicating with past loved ones and time travel! You can tell the author’s raw emotion and passion when it came to writing this. I recommend reading this book to anyone on their healing journey!

[Jana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming

Thanks to Goodreads for the opportunity to get this book. I had no idea that one could touch on so many difficult subjects in such a kind way. Although, I'm still not sure why some parts of the history needed to be shared to get the point across, it was a very unique way to do it. I can see lots of triggers for some, but also somewhat free therapy sessions.
Easy and quick read.

[Kristy Botts · Rating 3 out of 5]

I made it not quite halfway in this book and decided I will not be able to finish it. This book seems to jump from one scene to another with no scene break and it has my mind going crazy and finding it hard to keep up with what is actually going on. The storyline is cute and could possibly be a great read, just not for me.

[Yvonne Marks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book interesting to read. The author had an interesting take on how the different generations connected to each other. It was sad all the issues the different generations had to deal with but showed how it does affect all the different generations. It such a shame what some people have to deal with throughout their lives.
Thanks for the free book.

[Kristy Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank you to Goodreads for the opportunity to read/review this book, I was so looking forward to it from the description!
So far, it looks like I'm the only one who didn't absolutely love it, I was just let down by the writing and dialogue. The dialogue kept me so distanced from the characters and story, it just wasn't written in a way people actually speak and the characters fell flat. I wanted to care about them more than I did. I love the premise of this story, I just wish it had been told differently.