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Doreen Virtue's book, "Solomon's Angels," is beautiful and magical!
It is written in the first person narration in the character of the Queen of Sheba.
This book is about the story of the Queen of Sheba and King of Solomon. This book gives us an insight look at whom the Queen of Sheba is. We get to know about her. We get to know about what she dreams of, and what her desires are. We also get to know about King Solomon and about his wisdom. We also get an inside look in how the Archangels assisted King Solomon throughout the story. This story is beautiful. It is historical. It is also a romantic story. It also has a lot of interesting biblical facts that we can learn from, such as the Ark of Covenant, and so much more...This book promotes the concepts of wisdom, confidence, ancient manifestation secrets, self-acceptance, romance, true love, and connection with the divine.
What a beautiful book. The way Doreen writes the book is beautifully done.

This was an earnest effort to give us some insight into the lives of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. A tremendous amount of research was invested and several passages were entertaining, but not consistently. I was frequently distracted by Sheba's 20th-21st century voice:

* "I didn't need my mother, a husband, or a baby to make me feel complete! I was a strong, competent woman who was making a difference to my own commonwealth. I could attain fulfillment on my own, thank you very much."
* "...perhaps the spicy food made my metabolism work overtime."
* "I sighed with exhaustion at the thought of this momentous public relations campaign."
* "I learned how to direct the fire's light to disinfect wounds, water, food, and anything else that needed sterilization."
* "Once I overcame my mental blocks."
* "Our plan was to perform the teleportation..."
* "She explained that the king was a connoisseur of mental gymnastics."
* "My tresses definitely needed attention."
* "...the least he could do would be to get offof his darned throne and come meet me!"
* "...our gifts basically canceled each other out!"
* "The basis of our relationship was a strong electric magnetism that drew us together..."
* "That dream had died the night before, damn it!"
* "...the bottom line is that we must return to Sheba at once."

The visiting queen frequently and inexplicably wandered about late at night, unescorted and undetected by her guards or Solomon's. And she talks about no longer desiring to "deify" the planets. Other quizzical "ancient" jargon:

* "No matter how far-fetched the claimant's case"
* "You look incredible"
* "I'm sorry, darling"
* "Here you go, sweetheart"
* "...you'reacting like a schoolgirl missing classes to be with her boyfriend."
* "I felt so giddy"
* "...like a soprano's voice shattering a crystal goblet"
* "That old rumor's still circulating?"
* "...brushing up on his Hebrew"
* "What point was he driving at?"
* "Darn!"
* "Well, that sort of made sense."
* "I was getting very good at nonverbal communication!"

While much of the language was modern slang, some of it was just plain stiff:

* "I mentally chastised Mother for frightening me with her inopportune absence."

* "...his face transformed into that of a seven-year-old boy with impish eyes imploring a playmate to engage in fun antics."

* "...he reworded the same query, still making no sense."

* "...its music simultaneously discordant and pleasant."

She even exclaims, "Jeez!" at some point. Despite the best intentions, this novel didn't transport me to that era or allow me to be in Sheba's head, as good fiction typically does. Perhaps narrative non-fiction would have been a better vehicle for what could have been an interesting story.

I bless Doreen's efforts, however this book was enjoyable in the beginning but left me puzzled and questioning. A spiritural novel with messages true however the story line has some confussion. When the Queen of Sheba is whitnessing a replay of her and Hirams relationship inside the Temple she is faced with her "fear" Solomon later instructs the Archangels to clean the Temple of these lower energies, he also tells Sheba of due unrest with Hirams men, growing amoungst the crowd, as Hiram will not teach anyone his trade this results in his death by his men, surely his men if they were having such strong negative feelings working in and around the Temple these negative vibrations and thought patterns would have been felt as this was such a "powerful special spiritural" place and the people who worked there would have been chosen, as Hiram was for their special abilities, in order to be in the right place to have the privillage to be a part of this amazing Temple's creation. Solomon was aware of it and did nothing!This is not consistent with his character in the story, as he was such a God like Spiritural human being. For me the ending was rather quick, a let down as I think the book came to a quick ending and again the story of Solomon's fall from grace as told by his then grown up son leaves one questioning how could such an enlightened human fall so far from grace as to loose the Holy Grail??? For me, not one of Doreens better stories. I perfer her stories that are apart of her life and teachings.

Doreen Virtue is evidently a fanatical researcher into ancient history, spirituality, and religions, and according to her preface, had done mountains of research into the subject of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, plus their cultures and environs, before writing this book. Doreen is a metaphysician and a clairvoyant as well. Her preface implies that, having done her exhaustive research, when she began writing the book the characters took on a life of their own, and she "watched" and "saw" them living their lives. Given this information, one wonders how closely her vision matches the historical truth (about which there exists no one definitive proof or source).

Her credentials do give a lot of weight to this fascinating, remarkable story. The novel is also full of metaphysical truths and secrets, many provided by the angels: Solomon's guides Michael and Metatron, and Sheba's mother (in spirit), who is/was a Jinn (from whence comes the word "genie").

All of the above make the book a delightful read, and well worthwhile, especially for the metaphysically inclined, lovers of historical novels, and lovers of romance. I found it "un-put-downable," and finished it in two days.

If I had one quibble it would be that the writing was a bit simplistic and seemed at odds with the depth of the subject matter. However, it did make the book and the principles therein easy to understand. Perhaps if Doreen and her editors can take this constructive criticism offered by readers here on Amazon, her next historical novel can be even better. I look forward to more well-researched, clairvoyantly written, delightful spiritual historical novels from her!

I loved this book! I couldn't put it down once I started reading it! The story give us a glimpse of the life of a king and a queen thrown into their roles as teens who meet and fall in love. But the book teaches us about the magic of not only love but of the spirit realm. Fascinating!!

Up to this point I have devoured and savored just about everything that Dr Doreen Virtue has printed. I was sadly disappointed with this novel. One of the first things to strike me was the language used by the protagonist and I could not agree more with Louise Simpson's critique (`Ancient queen speaks in 21st century voice' April 26, 2008.) I found myself significantly distracted by Queen Makeda's extremely contemporary thought processes, not to mention her vocabulary, colloquialisms and phrases, many of which were coined in the latter parts of the last century. This really did divert the reader's imagination - it was difficult to attempt to absorb oneself in the era proposed by the novel with all this extremely contemporary vocal and thought activity going on.

The information presented in the novel itself was interesting and, I imagine, the author intended some of the information to be a lesson that the reader would find applicable and relevant for their own lives. Dr Virtue does manage to educate her readers by placing the lesson in the story, somewhat along the lines of "The Celestine Prophecy" (James Redfield). The process by which this is done in this story is, regrettably, interruptive to the flow of the narrative. For one example, we get a lesson on sacred geometry which intrudes on what should be a rather significant and important romantic moment.

The relationship between Solomon and the Queen is not well explored, nor is the relationship between the Queen and Hiram - this is so strange given that these relationships seem to be such pivotal and important themes. One minute the Queen is silently (literally) meeting with Hiram, the next she is madly in love with and kissing him every night. Then the Queen seems to go from a VERY plutonic opinion of Solomon to an almost desperate sexual desire for him. This occurs quite hastily, and all seemingly because he looks like a lost and lonely little boy!

The novel ends abruptly with rushed explanations of some of the main characters, leaving the reader dissatisfied and with a lot of unanswered questions, especially in respect to important secondary characters. There are lots of other gaps in the story, not the least of which is why the teenage Queen of Sheba is off wandering all sorts of locations on her own at night with no escort or indeed no one (no guards, nothing) seeing and at least questioning her. This seems far from credible, and again is a huge distracting oversight that is repeated over and over in this tale.

Dr Virtue has a great style of writing her non-fiction books, and I truly believe this story would have been best served as a non-fiction offering. Lessons could still have been included, as well as descriptions of the roles of the Archangels etc. In fact in this novel, the Queen's mother appears more prominently and has more to say than Solomon's Angels do.

I seriously do love almost all of Dr Virtue's other books and audios, and was saddened to be so disappointed by this installment. Nonetheless, I will continue to excitedly anticipate and read Dr Virtue's future efforts, as I believe she has been a brilliant author, speaker and teacher; a significant global contributor to modern metaphysical literature, as well as an inspirational leader spreading a genuine and sincere message of love and hope to the world.

Love this book... It's a must for anyone who is connected to the Angels, or has that wish in mind!...
Doreen Virtue writes in a very sweet and tender way, and it's a pleasure to read her inspired words!...

Isabel

This book is a beautiful story of love, faith and trust. Doreen has outdone herself. She is a wonderful writer and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

I HAVE PURCHASED THIS WONDERFUL BOOK 5 HOURS AGO AND HAVE ALREADY FINISHED READING IT SINCE I JUST COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN
I LOVED IT BUT I LOVE THE ALTERNATE ENDING WAY WAY WAY WAY MORE THEN THE ONE PRINTED IN THE BOOK AND I AM STICKING TO IT.
ENJOY

Enjoyed this book alot. From the historical point, I enjoyed the details and more. It is an excellent book for those who like history and adventure. I recommend this book for everyone.