Seduction by M.J.Rose Review and Giveaway!!!

Publication Date:  May 7, 2013
Atria Books
Hardcover; 384p
ISBN-10: 1451621507

SYNOPSIS:
From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a haunting novel about a grieving woman who discovers the lost journal of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries.

In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo’s beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, Hugo began participating in hundreds of séances to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with the likes of Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus—and even the Devil himself. Hugo’s transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it was believed.

Recovering from her own losses, mythologist Jac L’Etoile arrives on the Isle of Jersey—where Hugo conducted the séances—hoping to uncover a secret about the island’s Celtic roots. But the man who’s invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, has hopes she’ll help him discover something quite different—Hugo’s lost conversations with someone called the Shadow of the Sepulcher.

What follows is an intricately plotted and atmospheric tale of suspense with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart, by one of America’s most gifted and imaginative novelists.

About the Author

M.J. Rose is the international best selling author of eleven novels and two non-fiction books on marketing. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in many magazines and reviews including Oprah Magazine. She has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today and on the Today Show, and NPR radio.

  Rose graduated from Syracuse University, spent the '80s i

n advertising, has

 a commercial in the Mus

eum of Modern Art in NYC and since 2005 has run the first marketin

g company for authors - Authorbuzz.com.  The television series PAST LIFE, was based on Rose's novels in the Renincarnationist series. She is one of the founding board members 

of 

Internation

al Thriller Writers and runs the blog- Buzz, Balls & Hype.  She is also the co-founder of Peroozal.com and BookTrib.com.

Rose lives in CT with her husband the musician and composer, Doug Scofield, and their very spoiled and often photographed dog, Winka.

For more information on M.J. Rose and her novels, please visit her WEBSITE. You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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My Thoughts
This story actually starts in The Book of Lost Fragrances about Jac L’Etoile, a mythologist, and her family who were perfumers. Jac receives a letter from an acquaintance, Theo, from 17 years previous at a clinic that Jac was at as a young girl. Jac has had nightmares and dreams of things she cannot explain but does not believe in reincarnation. A mentor, Malachai, has tried to help her with these memories but Jac is still tortured with the memories that she can not explain.

Malachai gives her a letter from Theo who is asking Jac to come to the Isle of Jersey, England to do some research on his property regarding the Druids, an iron age people that populated Europe. Malachai does not want her to go because he thinks she might be in danger and there are things about Theo that worry him.

A  part of the story involves Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and dramatist, who lived on the Isle of Jersey after being exiled from France after he openly declared Napolean a traitor to France in 1855. Victor was a haunted man after the death of his beloved daughter Léopoldine who dies in a tragic accident. Victor is so distraught with his daughter's death that he starts to conduct seances with close friends and family. Victor has a mistress, Juliette and she has a woman who works for her, Fantine that Hugo befriends and becomes enchanted with. Fantine has her own demons to deal with as she lost a child and her lover has abandoned her and has no desire to carry on.

In the story, Victor Hugo has written detailed accounts of Fantine and the seances, where one of the entity's that was called forth is The Shadow of Sepulcher. Victor is compelled to continue the seances as he has a firm belief in the spirit world.In present day Theo and Jac scour the caves around Jersey to find these fabled journels. 

Another story evolves from the dreams that Jac has been having about Owain, a Druid priest and his wife Gwenore and son Brice circa 56 BCE. As Theo and Jac try to find these journals of Victor's they come to realize that there is more to the story than they thought, past lives and reincarnation. Does scent play a part in past life regressions? What do these three stories have to do with the other?? Can't tell you that...you will have to read for yourself.

This is a story partly based in history and partly the authors imagination. Ms. Rose combines these three stories of heartbreak, loss and love seamlessly in a suspenseful mystery that fans of M.J.Rose will love. It will help the reader to read The Book of Lost Fragrances because it sets up the characters and story line of Jac's family of perfumers. Whenever I read one of M.J.Rose's books I come away feeling like I have been immersed in the story right along with the characters and I do not want it to end. But all good things eventually come to an end, or do they???

I received a copy of this book for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review.

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Giveaway goes from April 16th to end of tour June 28th, 2013

I have one (1) Advanced Readers Copy for giveaway. In the comment section, please leave your email address and answer this question: Do you believe in past life regression/reincarnation?? That's it!!

Thanks and Good Luck!!!