Logan and Leslie Sykes were always close, but once Aiesha Peters joins them, they discover they share more than just their girlfriend, as they apparently draw forth unseen spirits to them. They wrestle with these new abilities and their overlapping auras, deciding what sets them apart, how to control it while determining just how dangerous it is. Either way, they are in this together, whatever the outcome.
Unable to see these invisible entities, Jie joins them, guiding their actions, while Ioana Dascalu provides questionable assignments, as they determine which spirits are dangerous, which beneficial, who they can trust and who they can’t.
Vincent Berg (1957) was born in New Jersey but, being a military dependent, grew up on 'more or less the East Coast'. Working in Systems Engineering in the Financial Services in Chicago and New York City, he never considered himself a writer, but after retiring and moving closer to his family, he wanted to explore the kinds of books he enjoyed.
His writings aren't typical, with the writing style harking back to the early twentieth Century, and the stories being complex and meandering. Without action heroes, antiheroes or even clear conflicts, the stories are more character based, as the central characters try to figure out where they are and where they're going. The reader gets sucked along, as they try to piece together where they fit in the world.
His work includes 5 series (ranging from 2 to 6 books), for a total of 16 original books published to date.
This, like many of my recent books, is very personal to me, as the protagonist, Logan, suffers from Asperger's, just as I do. But rather just tossing the label around, it actually delves into the actual personality traits, both the strengths and weaknesses, while also showcasing how--in this particular instance--those traits serve an unexpected purpose as the protagonists search out the deceased spirits following them as they try to understand what their abilities portend.
If you have or know someone with Aspergers in your life, enjoy fantasy stories, or simply enjoy a delightfully complex character. This book should be right up your alley. This is part of a two-book Psychic Readings series, though the characters and plots are independent of each other, as one details physically combatting deceased spirts stuck on Earth, while the sequel, Prophetic deals with someone who--after several near-death experience--not only routinely hears their voices--but has actually journeyed in the land of the dead many times.
Both books are creative explorations into the world of possibility, yet each in grounded in the new Energy Medicine based Psychic Energy research field, keeping the story grounded in science, as most of my science fiction stories are too.
Of particular interest, following several anti-religion or openly atheistic characters, this book portrays the Catholic Church in an fresh light, showing them as receptive to a new scientific understanding of the field of exercise which has long cast the church in a negative light. What's more, after my open-ended--and ultimately unsatisfactory--attempt to define my own role with God, this one actually changed me from an acknowledged atheist into a non-religious believer in both a creative maker, but also of souls and an actual after life.