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Recognitions

By: Daniela I. Norris
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus Bradner
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Amelia Rothman, a foreign-rights editor from New York, has a turbulent personal life. She juggles a divorce and two teenage kids, and decides to seek hypnotherapy to help her deal with insomnia and anxieties. But when during the session an unexpected event emerges, she tries to understand how it is relevant to her current life and why it suddenly triggers a series of synchronicities that take her on an unexpected personal journey to the depth of her subconscious. At once a spiritual and psychological novel, Recognitions explores the concepts of past lives, recognition of people and their roles in our present lives and life lessons. Recognitions is the first of a trilogy.

©2016 Roundfire Books (P)2017 Daniela Norris Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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An enjoyable story - the characters were well portrayed for the times that they lived in. I look forward to reading the next books in this series.

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This is not my usual genre. All though I enjoyed it and will read the 2nd book. The story was good the narration was really good she did a fantastic job in her accents etc.

Not my usual

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This was an unusual direction for my reading to take; I don't often read books with mystic content or previous lives. I have to say, it was an interesting diversion and I shall definitely read the sequel.

There were three time lines in this novel, although the current time was the strongest and the one that drew everything together. Amelia Rothman sells the publishing rights for books to be translated world wide, a job that involves some degree of travelling. Her marriage has recently collapsed and she decides to try hypnotherapy, hoping that it will help her to sleep.
The second time line was set in 18th century France, where Adele has reached marriageable age and must choose between two suitors.
Finally, there is the story of an African Shaman at the time of the slave trade, trying to protect his people from the aggressive Portuguese traders.

This is the first book of a trilogy and I was really enjoying it, when my audiobook suddenly concluded. I wasn't ready for it to end, there was no real closure. I felt as if I was left hanging. I do have the second book in audio, so I can continue, but I would have liked some completion to this first episode.

The narration was done by Natalie Naudus Bradner and I thought she did a great job. Just one thing I would have preferred - a change of voice between the narration of the different eras, to assist the sudden transitions that the book seemed to make.
...and so, on to Book 2...

Past lives and mysticism.

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First off the narration is really good, I just struggled a bit to work out which century we are in throughout the book as it covers three different eras; present day, 17th Century and africa a long time ago.

the book starts with a woman called Amelia who regresses back through different times to find out why she is who she is now.

It is a brilliant concept it just didn't work that well for me

took a while to get used to

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This book is not the sort of thing I usually read, but I was very pleasantly surprised. This is a novel which has three storylines - the first in present day USA, the second in 18th century France, and the third in colonial Africa. It explores hypnosis and past life regression. All three stories are compelling and it's one of those 'just one more chapter' books that you have to keep listening to. The writing is beautiful and the story flows well and despite the three different stories it doesn't become confusing.

The narration by Natalie Naudus Bradner was perfect. I can't wait to listen to the next in the series.

Compelling start to a series

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