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Project Resurrection

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I loved the book, I started reading it on the plane coming home from vacation, and couldn't put it down. Really makes you think about the after life, and what it really could mean. A real science fiction, romance story, with alot of adventure.

I just finished reading PROJECT RESURRECTION. It's a breathtaking paranormal adventure with an inspirational romance.

In the not-too-distant future, 2013, a group of scientists and doctors work to revive the dead bodies of cryogenics who died in the 1970s. There's a slight problem: when these people died forty some years ago, their souls continued their journeys of reincarnation into new, living bodies. Now, bringing these soul-less cryogenics to life is causing their prior souls to be ripped from the currently living in order to return to the souls' prior physical bodies.

LaNaya Seville, the protagonist and physical therapist for the project, has a dark secret. She carries psychic connections to the afterlife and the fascinating world between the living and the dead. She learns that, should she fail to free these lost souls, human life as we know it will cease.

High stakes and crisp writing make this book hit the floor running. By page four, a man is brought back from the dead to a living, silent agony, and LaNaya's challenge begins.

The story caught my interest immediately and I enjoyed the suspense, which remained high right to the end. I enjoyed the romance, which spans time and lifetimes.

This novel offers excitement and intriguing food for thought.

The year was 2013, the place was Alaska. Decades ago, Cassandra had breast cancer. Dr. Terrace Labriola would not allow his wife to have the breast removed. So he "preserved" his wife's body against her will. He created Project Resurrection to reanimate cryopreserved dead. However, he never thought about the souls of those "preserved bodies". The souls later were reborn in new bodies. Reincarnation. When Dr. Labriola reanimated the bodies, the souls were sucked OUT of the new bodies. Thus both bodies were in comas and the soul was stuck in "the in-between place".

LaNaya Seville was the project's physical therapist. She had died before, but did not make it to the after place before her body began functioning again and pulled her back. When she "awoke", she was an empathic healer. She used her title as physical therapist to hide the fact that she was using her unique gift to help heal her patients. She, and a few close others, learn of the stuck souls and rush to figure out how to help them before an evil beyond claims the souls and energies of the victims. Somehow, Project Resurrection had to be stopped...permanently!

***** A highly entertaining read that will force its readers to sit up and take notice! Recommended reading here!

Karen Duvall has ventured into the future of medicine and made the unimaginable...possible! The main character of PROJECT RESURECTION, LaNaya Seville, is a physical therapist on the Project Resurrection team even though she doesn't fully believe in the project. However, thru her "gift", she attempts to right the wrongs brought about by the project's reanimation of the cryonic patients. While the plot revolves around futuristic medicine, the story is about people: misuse of power, enduring friendship and love that spans eternity.

I am not usually a reader of science fiction, however the well-developed characters and riveting plot kept me up into the wee hours. It was well worth the lost sleep!!

I am eagerly looking forward to more works by Karen Duvall.

The year was 2013, the place was Alaska. Decades ago, Cassandra had breast cancer. Dr. Terrace Labriola would not allow his wife to have the breast removed. So he "preserved" his wife's body against her will. He created Project Resurrection to reanimate cryopreserved dead. However, he never thought about the souls of those "preserved bodies". The souls later were reborn in new bodies. Reincarnation. When Dr. Labriola reanimated the bodies, the souls were sucked OUT of the new bodies. Thus both bodies were in comas and the soul was stuck in "the in-between place".

LaNaya Seville was the project's physical therapist. She had died before, but did not make it to the after place before her body began functioning again and pulled her back. When she "awoke", she was an empathic healer. She used her title as physical therapist to hide the fact that she was using her unique gift to help heal her patients. She, and a few close others, learn of the stuck souls and rush to figure out how to help them before an evil beyond claims the souls and energies of the victims. Somehow, Project Resurrection had to be stopped...permanently! A highly entertaining read that will force its readers to sit up and take notice! Recommended reading here!

When I was a kid, there was an urban myth floating around that Walt Disney had himself cryopreserved (frozen). I always wondered about that; what would happen if the dead were brought back to life, decades, even centuries, after their deaths. Karen Duvall's new novel, Project Resurrection, tackles this issue, more on a science-fiction/New Age level than from a realistic viewpoint. The time is 2013, and many of the diseases that are currently incurable are no longer life threatening.

The novel takes the reader to Angakok, Alaska; the only place left in the world with air that can be breathed by humans. The temperatures are always sub-, subzero. There in Angakok, Project Resurrection is beginning to unfold. Dr. Terrance Labriola, the Project's founder, has built an elaborate scientific laboratory dedicated to bringing the thirty cryogenics back to life. Surrounded by his team, Terrance has success with his first patient/experiment (David Bodine), only to have the patient retreat into an unexplainable coma.

One member of the team, LaNaya Seville-a physical therapist---has a special gift as a "healer." LaNaya also has the ability to leave her body, while her soul journeys to the astral plane---the level between Heaven and Hell. This ability is a legacy from her Inua ancestors, an Alaskan tribe thought to be long annihilated. Though LaNaya relishes her gift to help others, she is fearful of her "dark" side---the Inua are known to engage in sorcery and evil---though it has yet to surface.

As the project continues, Terrance has more luck with the second patient/experiment. Kaiser is conscious, but he doesn't want to be resurrected; he was happy on the astral plane. He is unhappy in the new world he has yet to see outside his glass cubicle. LaNaya visits him on the astral plane, trying to determine the cause of David's coma.

With the success of Kaiser's reanimation, Labriola is ready to resuscitate his third patient/experiment, the person for whom he devoted his life to cryogenics, his gorgeous, still young, wife, Cassandra. But something was horribly wrong with Cassandra's death and follows her into her return. LaNaya returns again and again to the spirit world to help Cassandra, Kaiser, and David.

At first, the plot of Project Resurrection was a little hard to understand what was happening. But once the reader understands the situation, the plot becomes fascinating. The story is sometimes fast paced, sometimes slow. The battles between good and evil on the astral plane get a little redundant at times, but this novel is worth reading just to view the author's amazing imagination, if for nothing else.

Project Resurrection is a classic tale of good versus evil with a new age twist. Duvall skillfully weaves a story with an intriguing premise-- what happens when cryopreserved dead are reanimated when their souls have already reincarnated? Even if you don't agree with the belief system portrayed, you'll be swept up by the strong heroine and by the plausible futuristic world in which she lives. An enjoyable read that also made me think.

What fascinated me about this book was Duvall's intriguing vision of souls suspended in a world in between heaven and hell. When you read about this world, the sensory description is so rich, you truly believe you're there. Put simply, the major conflict in the book is a powerful battle between good and evil couched in a very believable 21st-century world. I absolutely couldn't put this book down and thought about it for weeks after I read it.

Ms. Duvall explores the moral and ethical dilemma of reanimating cryogenically preserved bodies with a unique twist. Assuming that bodies require souls to be fully animate, where do these souls come from? The souls that once animated them have been reincarnated into other bodies and must be either called from their new bodies, or other, unembodied souls must be called forth to take their places. The heroine of Project Resurrection is the only one who recognizes the danger, since she is a mystically gifted Inuit descended from a long line of dark sorcerers. Although a ceremony when she was young broke the hold of ancestral evil upon her, she is still sensitive to its power and fears every time she uses her gifts that she may
slip under its control.

Unfortunately, that leads to the book's main weakness. Set up as a grand battle between darkness and light, the conflict is robbed of potency by a lack of conviction regarding the nature of evil. At various times, the heroine seems to believe in determinism (when a soul is tainted, the person can do nothing but evil), free will (a person always has a choice to succumb to or repudiate evil, regardless of past choices), and even behaviorism (a person's situation and upbringing lead to good or evil actions, regardless of the person's inner nature). Worse, this schizophrenic cosmology is projected onto the other characters, so she is sometimes trying to redeem them and sometimes condemning them for evil which they have not yet done.

If you can get past that obstacle, however, you should enjoy the detailed exploration of Inuit spiritual beliefs. The portrayal of medical experimentation conducted by doctors with god complexes is frighteningly realistic, as are the actions of overly aggressive news media and self serving special interest groups. This is a book to make you think and take action to avert a potential tragedy before it can happen.

-- reviewed for Science Fiction Romance newsletter

By 2013, Planet Earth has radically changed from just a couple of decades ago. Especially different is the medical field where cures for cancer and AIDS have halted these deadly diseases. However, new strains of viruses remain out of control and insects that resided in the rain forests for millenniums have spread other diseases. Fewer children are being brought into the world because death remains a powerful enemy.

In the 1960s and 70s, many individuals chose to be frozen until a cure for their disease was found. At Alaska's Angakok Longevity Institute, PROJECT RESURRECTION is attempting to revise three individuals who died decades ago. However, a portal between this world and the next has been opened allowing an evil essence to cross over. Only the psychic La Naya Saille realizes the danger of the resurrected souls. These malevolent beings plan to turn this world into their own playground resembling Hell unless La Naya can find a way to stop them and return balance to the universe.

This paranormal romance will appeal to New Age romance fans who enjoy a powerful supernatural tale where good and evil battle for supremacy. The heroine is the gem that lifts the tale from the ordinary as she battles with her own dark side as well as her deadly opponents. Karen Duvall provides readers with a fantastic work that should serve as the debut of a different kind of series.

Harriet Klausner