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The Collector of Dying Breaths is a Historic Romance Novel following the lives of a monk from the 1500’s and that of Jac L’Etoile, a French woman of modern times, who is plagued by the ability to see past lives of her own as well as others.
In this novel we are presented with an ancient monk, Rene le Florentin, who is on a mission to reanimate souls using their last dying breath using his previous master’s formula and notes. He is pushed towards this mission by his Queen, Catherine de Medici who loses her husband, and is pushed even further when he loses the love of his life.
Meanwhile Jac has been called upon to finish her late brother’s work of recreating this ancient formula, and is forced to work alongside her past lover, Griffin, a linguist, who she has never stopped loving. Jac works on the formula for a collector of ancient materials who doesn’t seem to know limits when it comes to what she wants.
Jac solves the mystery of the formula, and learns to accept her life, and the possibility that past life occurrences don’t necessarily have to repeat themselves.
I listened to this book on audio, which is performed by Natlie Ross and Phil Gigante. It was somewhat hard to hear Natalie when she spoke as Jac, because her voice trails off at the end of words. It was something I got used to as the audio continued on, but somewhat annoying at first. However she portrays Jac as burdened and somewhat weak, which is appropriate. They were both great when switching between characters.
