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The memorist
Record details
- ISBN: 9780778325840 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0778325849 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780778325840
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Physical Description:
453 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-[460]). |
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| Subject: | Women -- Fiction Jewish journalists -- Fiction Reincarnation -- Fiction Violent crimes -- Fiction Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Psychological thrillers. Terrorist thrillers. Suspense fiction. |
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Available copies
- 3 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace Public Library | Ros (Text) | 35151000036285 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2008 October #1
Although not exactly a sequel to The Reincarnationist (2007), this novel combines mystery and fantasy in the same way. Meer Logan is still haunted by the memories she experienced as a child, memories that seemed to reveal a past life. Now, spurred on by a letter ostensibly written by Beethoven and a picture that resembles a vision that appeared to her many years ago, she travels to Vienna to try to find out who she isâand who she was. The story is quite convolutedâit involves past lives, a mysterious flute, and a journalist seeking revenge for a terrorist act that destroyed his lifeâbut Rose tells it elegantly, moving gracefully between characters, between time and place, and building both momentum and suspense. It's more skillfully written than The Reincarnationist, and, as with that novel, there are dozens of ways it could have collapsed under its own weight. But it never does, and for that reason it should be recommended highly to readers who appreciate mysteries tinged with the supernatural. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2008 October #2
Memories of previous lives that include some rather tense negotiations with a great 19th-century composer send a young woman to Vienna, where a very unhappy reporter hopes to blow up the Philharmonic.Not-quite-totally-reformed Harlequin Romance account executive Rose (The Reincarnationist, 2008, etc.) fails to resist the temptation to tie her moody but attractive heroine's karma to an immensely interesting historical figure rather than the much more likely run of hog butchers and pony farmers that populate most people's pasts. In the case of Meer Logan, the monumental figure whose path she crossed at the Congress of Vienna is Ludwig van Beethoven. Haunted since childhood by dark but immensely interesting episodes from an exciting back story, Meer has learned from her therapist enough wobbly control tips to keep from slipping into madness. Now her father, a dealer in Judaica, has located in Vienna the very puzzle box that recurs time and again in her frightening dreams. Tucked away in the box is a letter from the great Ludwig Van that might answer the mystery of the whereabouts of a sort of Magic Flute. It's not the pleasant Mozartean whistle, though. It's the modified bone of yet another figure from Meer's past, an Indian lover of four millennia ago, and this bit of custom carving can send almost anyone who hears it into paroxysms of memory-induced horror. She heads to Vienna to find that musical bone, but almost immediately upon our stressed-out heroine's arrival in the old Hapsburg capital, bodies begin to drop and Meer realizes that she's being hunted. Helping her to dodge the heavies is the Philharmonic's handsome first-chair oboist. As the metronome ticks away the seconds, a bereft reporter, his Israeli family having been blown up by terrorists, sets a time bomb in the largely forgotten Roman ruins under the Philharmonic, thereby dispatching the security mavens who have rented the fabled concert hall.Confused? Few readers will care enough to unravel this ridiculous plot.Agent: Loretta Barrett/Loretta Barrett Books Copyright Kirkus 2008 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2008 September #1
A tragic childhood accident left musician Meer Logan with haunted memories of a past life. Over the years, Meer learned to manage her condition at the Phoenix Foundation with psychologist Malachai Samuels through past-life regression therapy. Malachai's suspicious search for the elusive Memory toolsâancient objects believed to assist in remembering past livesâhas put him under FBI surveillance. When rumors of a Memory flute belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven surface, Meer is thrown into a dangerous hunt through the streets of Vienna for this priceless object. Her past life as Margaux Neidermier, student and friend of Beethoven, gives Meer valuable insight. But other powerful figures desperately want this treasure, and it will take Meer all the courage she possesses to discover and solve this puzzle before it is too late. In her follow-up to The Reincarnationist , Rose once again skillfully blends past and present with a new set of absorbing characters in a fascinating historical locale for this gripping second in a series. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.âJoy St. John, Henderson Dist. P.L., NV
[Page 122]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2008 September #3
Near the start of Rose's fascinating follow-up to The Reincarnationist (2007), Meer Logan visits the Manhattan office of Malachai Samuels, the erudite head of a reincarnation foundation. When Malachai shows her an auction catalogue photo of a gaming box once owned by a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven, the photo closely resembles a sketch Meer made as a child based on what Meer wishes were false memories. Malachai believes Meer has been haunted by past-life memories, in particular those of Margaux Neidermier, whose husband in 1814 asked Beethoven to decipher a song inscribed on an ancient flute. The box turns out to contain a Beethoven letter suggesting the composer didn't destroy the "memory flute" as he claimed to have done at the time. When the box is stolen soon after Meer examines it, she heads to Vienna for answers. Alas, others are on the same trail, including FBI Special Agent Lucien Glass of the Art Crime Team, Austrian authorities and assorted thieves. Rose skillfully blends past-life mysteries with present-day chills. The result is a smashing good read. (Nov.)
[Page 43]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
