The Seed by Fola (Review)

Throughout our lives, many things may lead us to forget who we truly are. Result? Slowly yet inevitably, cages and chains enslave our thoughts and slay our freedoms.

Down the ages, men have thus fallen for hosts of illusions, confusions and fears - except for the seven dreamers whose stories this book contains. These mad truth-seekers (who oddly share the same name) did not follow others' flow to slavery; rather, they heeded a voice in their heads that led them to obsession with an idea long thought extinct, buried beneath the sands of time: The Seed.

In this book you will take a rollicking metaphysical ride that starts in ancient Egypt, moves to the Grand Greek Era, then to Rome, Arab Alexandria, on piratic High Seas, to Switzerland and circuses, into a Christian era interlude, then to modern Egypt (2007) and lastly, to a sort of Garden of Visionary Epiphany that will leaves you on and past the brink of enlightenment...

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MY THOUGHTS:
From reading the synopsis of the book and a sample of it before I accepted to review it, I really thought I would enjoy this book - but I didn't.

I just didn't understand this book at all! There are seven different stories that are all intertwined together with the last story. I found all of them to be short, very confusing, and at times vulgar. Had this not been a book that I received to review, I would not have continued to read it - it was that bad! I have not had a book that I didn't want to finish reading in YEARS!!! Just so you know, I enjoy a broad range of genres, and I really thought that I would enjoy 'The Seed' - but I was VERY mistaken.

There is a scene in the book where God, the devil, and the main character (MC) in that story are gambling. They are each betting on the hope that this MC has (God to save it, the devil to take it, and the MC to keep and gain more). I do not believe that God bets or gambles on anything, and so this was very offensive to me.

In two of the other stories, it talks very crudely about a man's genitalia and also about the physical act between a man and a woman. I felt that these were unnecessary and were only put in the story for shock value. I do not recommend this book.

*** I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author to review. I was asked to give my honest opinion of the book - which I have done. ***

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler

After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?


Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless seducers, and marriages of convenience. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. But when Courtney's borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues, Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to?


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MY THOUGHTS
'Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict' was just so confusing! I kept reading it thinking that it will all be explained at the end, but the ending doesn't explain anything - it just confused me even more.


One of the only parts of the book that I liked was when Courtney spotted Jane Austen. Courtney quickly approached her and began to tell her how much she loves her books. At first Austen denies that she wrote them, but then she seemed very pleased that she enjoyed her books. Courtney then precedes to name books that aren't yet published, which frightened Austen so much that she left at almost a run!


There were so many parts of this book that I didn't like.The book never explains what happened, why it happened or how it happened. I never found out what happens with Courtney afterwards or for that matter what happened to Jane Mansfield, the woman whose body Courtney is in, while Courtney was possessing her. Courtney is such a slut, one time she almost completely compromised herself/Jane with a man she had just met - the only thing that stopped her was her fear of getting a std or pregnant. 


Overall I think that this book is a total waste of time. I DON'T recommend this book.


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Laurie Viera Rigler