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Parting the Veil

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John Creed was driving his convertible when a school bus made an abrupt turn smashing his vehicle. John was clinically dead as his heart stopped beating and his brain showed no activity. His doctors manage to get the heart pumping, but he lived because of a machine. Pull the plug and he would be dead.

Ten days later, a miracle occurs when John awakens in the ICU. After a time his memory of his fatal day and aftermath begins to return in vivid detail. Soon he begins to see the pain of other people whose lives seemed desperate. John has gained a gift from his time on the other side. He might be able to provide solace to some who are suffering, but the dark knows about John and plan to use him to shift the balance between good and evil to those of the malevolent.

PARTING THE VEIL is an exciting inspirational suspense laden tale of hope that will remind readers of the King work The Dead Zone (book not TV series or Walken's 80s movie) The story line is fast-paced and at its loftiest when John struggles with helping people cope with their problems not an easy task to achieve. When the tale leaves the psychological spiritual life after death environs into a good vs. evil thriller it increases the excitement and suspense, but loses a piece of what makes Jay Davis' tale a unique homage to humanity's ability to win against overwhelming odds.

Harriet Klausner

The beauty of this book is that it can be read on so many levels. Clearly, it can be read in a spiritual vein, though it's a work of fiction. The author has done his homework, and has a strong grasp of the phenomena upon which several of the book's events are based.

But this story is also wonderfully suspensful. The last 100 pages real fly past as you race to the conclusion, which surprises even jaded readers. It's obvious that Davis' other books have given him a robust writer's toolkit with which to craft his tales.

Most impressive to me personally, was the degree to which I sympathized with even the antagonist characters. This is perhaps my strongest recommendation of the book. Davis doesn't draw caricatures just to facilitate his book's movement and pacing. Instead, the reader is able to witness the development of certain pathologies in his "bad guys." Wonderful!

Readers of a variety of genres will enjoy this book.

I don't normally read fiction but the tag line caught my eye...I am a slow reader but I blasted thru this one in just a few days! well written, kept my interest and intertwined all the NDE, spiritual cliches but still very enjoyable. Am looking forward to the next two...if I can only find them!

Strong start but an unrealistic finish that disappointed me.

The Near Death Experience (NDE) info was accurate and interesting as put into a novel. However, the second half of the novel, while suspenseful, was deeply unsatisfying to me. The clues on how to "get over" serious trauma with the help of divine guidance just evaporated. I would have liked more insight at the ending; I would have preferred that to high drama.
Parting the Veil lapses into lectures as to what approach one ought to have toward life or life after death. I ended the story with no hope at all for the "winners" in the story, and do not believe things could have proceeded as we were told they would happen (after the story ended).
This author has terrific potential, nevertheless. Some parts of the story were riveting, and very well written. "Please make it more believable and rewrite the last chapters" would be my advice to the author.

I really loved this book. It is well-written and cohesive. I couldn't put it down, even when I was crying (most embarrassingly) by my apartment's pool. And then I read it all over again...which means I read it twice in a period of four days.

As I said, I loved this book. It does touch on some heavy themes, but rather than being objectionable, I found that they made the book feel truer-to-life. And the story's spiritual content informs these gritty and horrifying situations, placing them in a completely different light.

Ultimately, this book spoke directly to my heart and left me feeling how connected we all are...something that isn't so easy to believe in a huge, isolating metropolis like Los Angeles. It's one of the better gifts I've ever given myself.

I would prefer to end my review here, since this is an accurate detailing of how I experienced the book. However, if I had never read this book before, I would be very perplexed by the range of reviews on it. What I think it boils down to is this. Some readers are critiquing the religious or spiritual aspects as they read; whereas, others find these same elements inspiring. In other words, I believe that some of the reviewers are reading more with their heads and others are reading more with their hearts. Neither way is wrong, but you probably know which kind of a reader you are and should choose accordingly when weighing whether or not to purchase this book.

I thoroughly enjoyed Jay Davis' book on many levels. It was a great read with sympathetic, well-developed characters and a well-paced story. I couldn't put it down. Moreover, I couldn't stop thinking about the subject afterwards and have continued to seek out other books on the subject, both fiction and non-fiction. If this is truly a trilogy, I wish Jay luck and hope the next books come soon.

I just finished reading "Parting of the Veil" but it wasn't a good read. I was very disappointed in it. It wasn't worth the time to read the 400 pages and it was SLOW. Thing is, I didn't agree with a big part of it. A guy murders his daughter, wife and a family friend (who had had the out of body experience). The father then committed suicide and the only survivor was his little son. The angel says that they all completed their mission. God sent them to earth to teach the little boy some valuable lessons he will need later in life. (It took 400 pages to say that too.) Anyway, I DON'T AGREE! That abusive father is responsible for his actions. He could have been a loving father but instead he turned on his family and murdered them. I don't think that murdering the family was his mission at all! I think the book review was very misleading. I wonder if the reviewer that recommended the book even read it.