Customer Reviews

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I thought the format interesting and looked forward to real-time dialog between the characters, but that was sadly lacking. They never really engaged one another in any meaningful, escalating dialog that showed how they connected to one another or how someone's perceptions influenced another's thought processes. There was also a lot of one sided conversations disguised as dialog, and, I felt that there were many opportunities lost where the student could have questioned the master, in order to have the master expand upon the lesson and explain just how the student was to put the teachings into practice. The motivations of characters did not move the plot along and the authors resorted to inserting convenient situations to make points or generate conflict that would be magically resolved. I'm hoping a second read will enable me to get beyond the character and plot limitations to the lessons that the authors were trying to convey. Kudos to the authors for making the book happen; so many people who have a book in them never get it out.

I made the mistake of purchasing this book because it was referenced in a review for The Road (an amazing fiction currently on the best seller list). Now I realize I was probably led into buying it by one of the authors' friends or supporters. The 5 star reviews are bias, to say the least! The dialogue is beyond bad. It is stilted and at times downright silly. I love top quality spiritual writings like "The Power of Now" by E. Tolle or the writings of D. Chopra. It's not that I am spiritually closed, I just know very bad writing when I see it.
This "fiction" is an attempt to flesh out the spiritual teachings of the two authors through poorly crafted, one dimensional characters. I would rather drink flax oil and fast for a week to better my soul than read this kind of stuff. I anticipate receiving some unsupportive votes for this review, and these will likely come from the friends of the authors who have written the 5 star reviews. So be it. I'd rather be honest and save the potential Amazon customer some money!

Well written...Great Story...Great Process of Character Development and Unfolding of the Story...Held my interest from start to finish...Descriptive Landscape...interesting integration of varied locations...so it takes you on a visual journey as well as internal journey,,,a wonderful healing story relevant to many peoples personal experience in the world we live in today 2000 into the 2010 and the continual healing journey that is inherant in the progressive world we all live in...heartwarming, informative, endearing, adventurous and delightfully humorous and intriguing. A MUST READ...

This was another book that falls into the category of "I really wanted to like it." It does contain some good messages that I appreciated. However, it's just not written well, including simple grammatical mistakes that I was rather surprised the publisher didn't catch. That being said, it's not much below the level of Celestine Prophecy, another work of spiritual fiction with great ideas that wasn't incredibly well-crafted. The idea of putting the entire book in present tense sounds like a nice gimmick, but it doesn't necessarily translate into making the *reader* more present, which is surely the authors' goal.

The authors are clearly earnest and desire to impart wisdom, but there are likely better works out there. That being said, it's a fast read, and the ideas are enjoyable - but I'd surely instead refer someone to a classic like "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" or "The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You."

I started reading the book and could not read too many pages... even skimming some paragraphs. The writing of it was not engaging my interest.