The Left Turn; Two Lives Worlds Apart by Becky Parker Geist Review!

 

TITLE: The Left Turn: Two Lives, Worlds Apart (Book 1 in the Split Universe series)

RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2022

AUDIOBOOK RELEASE DATE: September 15, 2022

LARGE PRINT EDITION: September 15, 2022

AUTHOR: Becky Parker Geist

PUBLISHER: Pro Audio Voices Inc. 

ISBN 10: ‎ 1950144682

ISBN 13 : ‎ 978-1950144686

GENRES: metaphysical fiction, magical realism, science fiction, self-discovery, parallel universes, personal growth, conscious awakening, reality-bending, time travel

PAGES: 205

PAPERBACK PRICE: $14.95

PURCHASING DETAILS: The Left Turn: Two Lives Worlds Apart is is available for purchase on Amazon, and book retailers & libraries in all formats.

If you could leave behind the baggage of your yesterdays . . . who might you become?

Becky Parker Geist’s debut novel, The Left Turn: Two Lives Worlds Apart, explores self-discovery and discoveries in new science through contemporary metaphysical fiction in the context of parallel universes.

Hannah, a forty-six-year-old author plagued with anxiety, and her partner James, an HR recruiter caught in a headlock of grief over his brother’s death, are as desperate for inner peace as they are clueless about how to find it.

But when they embark on a sunny bike ride shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, a split-second decision propels them into different versions of their lives—ones they don’t recognize as their own. With a mental fog obscuring their past and who they were, they are forced to dig inside themselves to figure out who they are now. Surprising discoveries about the nature of the universe send them on a psychological journey toward who they can become.

Will they be able to let go of their deeply ingrained subconscious beliefs about life and themselves to embrace the unfamiliar potentials they now face?

Reminiscent of the film Sliding Doors and the novels The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, and The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver, The Left Turn: Two Lives, Worlds Apart is “excellently written” and “deeply engaging” (Literary Titan). 

Becky Parker Geist is the founder and CEO of Pro Audio Voices, which is a Portland based company serving clients internationally as a go-to place for exceptional audiobook production and marketing, and producer of the soon-to-be-released AMPlify app, that offers the highest royalties and most control to authors of audiobooks of any platform in the industry. 
 
Her debut novel, The Left Turn: Two Lives Worlds Apart, the first in the Split Universe series, which explores self discovery and discoveries in new science through contemporary metaphysical fiction in the context of parallel universes, is available for purchase on Amazon, and book retailers & libraries in all formats.

My Thoughts

There is a lot to unpack in The Left Turn by Becky Parker Geist. This is definitely like the title says "Two lives, worlds apart. the first in the Split Universe series.

The book starts with Hannah Fleet and James Wescott, who just recently moved to California, they decide to take a bike ride to try to forget about things that are bothering both of them. While on this ride, all of a sudden a left turn is taken and they find themselves in an alternate universe and what their lives are without each other.

Hannah is a struggling author who has just written a cookbook and has a lot of anxiety, about the fact that they moved and she has not received her luggage. James, is an HR recruiter and is still upset and feeling guilty for his brothers' death four years ago. He had had words with his brother and that was the last he spoke to him. His brother got into an argument with a man and was subsequently shot and died in James's arms.

Hannah and James have no recollection of their past lives or each other. They have fleeting thoughts and memories but nothing that can tell them how they got to where they are. In their alternative lives, Hannah takes a room from a kindly lady and she settles in with a job delivering newspapers, where she meets another lady that helps her deal with her anxiety and neuroses. James has a kind of dead-end job and a rather boring life.

As time goes on they are both able to move on with these alternate lives and be relatively happy. But then a chance meeting changes the whole idea of what they thought they had with each other. A daughter keeps popping up in their minds, Hannah wants to reconnect with her and James also wants to have a relationship with the daughter he hasn't seen since she was two.

This book was well written and kept my interest, even though it is categorized as metaphysical fiction, magical realism, and science fiction of which I am not a huge fan. I really liked this story, I often wanted to give Hannah a kick in the backside to get her to not be so complacent. This is definitely a what-if story about two lost souls that eventually figure themselves out.

I give the book 4 stars.

I received a copy of the book for review purposes only.