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Souleiado
Fine Hardcover Waterville, FIve Star, 2002. First edition, 2002, with personalized inscription signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Pictorial hardcover, 264 pages, illustrated dustjacket. Looks and feels new, with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket not priceclipped and has no chips or tears. A novel of fantasy, accidental time travel, grief, and letting go. Author is a native of Avon, Connecticut. . Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
268 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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March 15, 2012
Miriam Souleiado and Dorothy Elderkin are two women who live more then a hundred years apart, though they need each other's help to heal their grieving souls and learn to love again. T.J. Banks tells their incredible stories in the time-traveling novel, Souleiado, proving that love and the truth have no time boundaries.
Artist Miriam Souleiado enjoys life with her little daughter, Dena, and her loving husband, Jared. When she loses her husband in a car accident, her life changes forever. Jared is gone, but his ghost is still around, watching over his family. Miriam learns that she has to heal another woman's grief first, before she can say goodbye forever to her lost husband and live life without him. To get over her own grief and learn to live and love again, Miriam has to travel in time and bring peace to Dorothy Elderkin, a woman with a similar story and who may be Miriam's past-life self. Through several inexplicable experiences and ghostly appearances of her dead husband and of people from Dorothy's time, Miriam finds herself in the nineteenth's century, living Dorothy's life.
Past and present come to life through the two young women, their daughters, lovers and husbands, friends and enemies. The transitions between past and present are smooth, yet, the reader can tell the real Miriam from the one in Dorothy's body. The tone is soft. The two stories are similar, but not parallel. They are connected not only through the two heroines and their plots, but also, through the feelings and emotions they express.
Both heroines have young daughters and playful cats. Both, Dorothy and Miriam, have a second chance to rediscover the power and beauty of love. All they have to do is recognize their new soul mates and accept what they have to offer, but first, both, Dorothy and Miriam have to help each other survive their loses and learn to live their new lives, changed, in each case, by an unfortunate twist of faith.
The story is realistic. The plots--past and present alike--describe life's timeless defeats and triumphs. No matter the century, single mothers like Dorothy and Miriam have friends and enemies. Some people understand their struggles and offer comfort. Some remain indifferent, while others try to hide the truth ... only they cannot keep it hidden forever. In the end, the truth is set free, through love and strong beliefs, reincarnation and even through something as unbelievable as time-traveling.
Souleiado is not only a time-traveling story, but also one about timeless, universal elements such as truth, love, and life. Definitely a must-read, especially for fantasy and time-traveling fans.
Note: I originally wrote this review under pen name, Alex Shapiro. Review was republished under my name, Alina Oswald, on my blog, at alinaoswald.blogspot.com.
Artist Miriam Souleiado enjoys life with her little daughter, Dena, and her loving husband, Jared. When she loses her husband in a car accident, her life changes forever. Jared is gone, but his ghost is still around, watching over his family. Miriam learns that she has to heal another woman's grief first, before she can say goodbye forever to her lost husband and live life without him. To get over her own grief and learn to live and love again, Miriam has to travel in time and bring peace to Dorothy Elderkin, a woman with a similar story and who may be Miriam's past-life self. Through several inexplicable experiences and ghostly appearances of her dead husband and of people from Dorothy's time, Miriam finds herself in the nineteenth's century, living Dorothy's life.
Past and present come to life through the two young women, their daughters, lovers and husbands, friends and enemies. The transitions between past and present are smooth, yet, the reader can tell the real Miriam from the one in Dorothy's body. The tone is soft. The two stories are similar, but not parallel. They are connected not only through the two heroines and their plots, but also, through the feelings and emotions they express.
Both heroines have young daughters and playful cats. Both, Dorothy and Miriam, have a second chance to rediscover the power and beauty of love. All they have to do is recognize their new soul mates and accept what they have to offer, but first, both, Dorothy and Miriam have to help each other survive their loses and learn to live their new lives, changed, in each case, by an unfortunate twist of faith.
The story is realistic. The plots--past and present alike--describe life's timeless defeats and triumphs. No matter the century, single mothers like Dorothy and Miriam have friends and enemies. Some people understand their struggles and offer comfort. Some remain indifferent, while others try to hide the truth ... only they cannot keep it hidden forever. In the end, the truth is set free, through love and strong beliefs, reincarnation and even through something as unbelievable as time-traveling.
Souleiado is not only a time-traveling story, but also one about timeless, universal elements such as truth, love, and life. Definitely a must-read, especially for fantasy and time-traveling fans.
Note: I originally wrote this review under pen name, Alex Shapiro. Review was republished under my name, Alina Oswald, on my blog, at alinaoswald.blogspot.com.
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