Reviewer: Janet Davies
Title: The Sacred Glade
Author: Diane Charles Linford
Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press
ISBN: 1-60168-00-7 & 978-1-60168-00-6
Release Date: July 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Paranormal Romance
Year/Setting: Present Day
Overall Rating: 3.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity) Rating: Moderate
Violent Content Rating: None
Diane's Website: None found
Diane Tanner is leading an outwardly perfect life. She is married to a rich, successful business man who provides her with the best things in life. She is following her dream working in University theatre productions. Yet, she knows something is missing. When Diane's house burns down after a lightning strike it sets off a reaction in another dimension, and twin parallel lives meet.
After picking up the receiver of her burnt out telephone, Diane is stunned to find her other dimension, alter ego on the other end. At first she is stunned, worried about her sanity, then intrigued as she realizes she has an opportunity of learning what may have been if she had taken a different path in life. When the twin Dianes swap lives and dimensions, both have the chance to re-evaluate choices and lifestyles.
I always like reading about the concept of a different dimension or alternative plane - that maybe there is more to what we know or believe. The notion that you have a twin, in another dimension, living the same life as you but in a slightly different way is fascinating. And I believe at sometime most of us have wished to trade places with someone else just for a moment to experience more in life.
I had trouble liking the character of Diane or in this case the 'Dianes’. Whilst I understood their respective plights of wanting something more in their lives, I just did not sympathize with them or particularly cared whether they found what they were searching for. I also totally disliked Diane's patronizing husband. The character of Lee was rich and successful, but completely unaware of his wife as an individual. But then, I don’t think we were ever meant to like him and I am sure many women know a man exactly like Lee.
There is also a lot of hot, sweaty sex in The Sacred Glade. To me, this seemed to be the focus of what the characters wanted most out of their lives. In a lot of ways I think there is too much emphasis on the physical and less on the mental motivations in the book.
I found The Sacred Glade interesting in some parts, whilst in others, I had to read what I had just read to understand it properly. All in all, if you want to believe in more, enjoy erotica and are open to new ideas you will like this book.
Janet
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