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The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))

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How do you avenge or forgive your own murder four hundred years after it happened? A teen's recurring dreams reveals not only an old crime but the linkage of souls through three lifetimes in a repeating drama only Dana might be able to break. Her journey to find the heart of truth and to break the chain of repeated events makes for a gripping time travel/ghost story that is compelling and hard to put down.

Dana has horrible nightmares, is having trouble in school and is seeing a counselor. Together, they determine Dana's problems are rooted in the past - past lives. Dana's search for the truth takes her on an adventure that is riveting. I started this book at 3pm and finished at 2 am! The author's view of history and how it may affect some people is fascinating. He includes some twists and turns that makes the reader continue truning pages. His characters are very true to life without gratuitious bad language or sex. Highly recommended!

Full of suspense, mysticism, and action this is a great book if you want to forget about your every-day life for several hours. It will take you away on an adventure you won't believe. I couldn't put it down, wanting to know what happened next. Can't believe there aren't more reviews for it. An awesome book!

The Red Thread is an almost thriller about a girl with nightmares who discovers she has past lives. I could hardly bare to put this book down; it was just that intriguing. Dana has to solve a mystery about her nightmares, and through hypnosis, she finds two past, connected histories that reach into the present.

I don't believe in past lives, but this was presented and explained fairly well. Some of it didn't make sense, like some things relating to Dana's psychiatrist, but other than that...wow.

All books that my 14-year-old likes she tells me about, and I usually like them, too. After she started to read this she could not stop. I thought a book about incarnation would not be found in the American literature, imagine in the youth section. I thought it was well written and fun. I highly recommend it for the readers that want to have different reading experiences.

The thing about the Red Thread is that most of the present day scenes in Portsmouth only make sense if you know/ live in Portsmouth. When reading the book I thought that most of the time Richard Jackson was just adding street names just for the sake of adding street names. If someone was reading the book and wasnt from the area they would have no clue where "Pleasant Street" was or what streets would intersect "Islington". I thought the flash backs were so rich and colorful, but the present day was completely lack luster! The main character is a teenage girl- of course she is crazy! But that in no way means that she should be in intensive anger therapy with a doctor who probably hasn't stepped outdoors since 1973! The Modern Day section was just to sappy and it took away from the dream sequences in the book.