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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678967.The_Reincarnationist?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Reincarnationist" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188738280m/678967.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/678967.The_Reincarnationist?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Reincarnationist</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/69003.M_J_Rose">M.J. Rose</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20764370?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 1 of 5 stars<br/>i would give this book less than one star if it would let me.  It started out with such promise, but ended up making me promise to never read another of this author's books.  The plot begins, albeit in an disjointed way, in two timelines, with the main character experiencing past-life regressions after a jarring accident.  What follows is an attempt to cash in on the style of writers, the like of Dan Brown and Steve Berry.  Unfortunately, this offer has neither the gripping plot, nor the follow-through to actually make it a successful attempt.  About halfway through a second female lead is added to the mix with her own regression issue, which inexplicably begins regressions to a completely different time.  I should have seen the red flag at this point, but I didn't pay attention to the signs.
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<br/>From there, the book hurtles at a breakneck pace toward one of the most incongruous and anti-climactic endings I've ever experienced.  Not only is the ending not happy, but the book simply ends, resolving only one of the two past life story lines(the second, which seemed completely added after the fact, and hackneyed to say the least), and leaving the reader with a big old question mark as to not only what happened, but why they wasted their time.  The villain is not predictable, but also not entirely believable.  The relationships aren't at all life-like, and the whole thing seems rushed.  The book just leaves complete dissatisfaction in the hands of the patient reader.  
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Scott's review
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recommended for: no one

i would give this book less than one star if it would let me. It started out with such promise, but ended up making me promise to never read another of this author's books. The plot begins, albeit in an disjointed way, in two timelines, with the main character experiencing past-life regressions after a jarring accident. What follows is an attempt to cash in on the style of writers, the like of Dan Brown and Steve Berry. Unfortunately, this offer has neither the gripping plot, nor the follow-through to actually make it a successful attempt. About halfway through a second female lead is added to the mix with her own regression issue, which inexplicably begins regressions to a completely different time. I should have seen the red flag at this point, but I didn't pay attention to the signs.

From there, the book hurtles at a breakneck pace toward one of the most incongruous and anti-climactic endings I've ever experienced. Not only is the ending not happy, but the book simply ends...more

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