Book Review: Parting the Veil

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Parting the Veil     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Jay Davis
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Fantasy   Inspirational Fiction   Thriller
Forge, Jul 2004, $24.95, 382 pp.

John Creed was driving his convertible when a school bus made an abrupt turn smashing his vehicle. John was clinically dead as his heart stopped beating and his brain showed no activity. His doctors manage to get the heart pumping, but he lived because of a machine. Pull the plug and he would be dead.

Ten days later, a miracle occurs when John awakens in the ICU. After a time his memory of his fatal day and aftermath begins to return in vivid detail. Soon he begins to see the pain of other people whose lives seemed desperate. John has gained a gift from his time on the other side. He might be able to provide solace to some who are suffering, but the dark knows about John and plan to use him to shift the balance between good and evil to those of the malevolent.

PARTING THE VEIL is an exciting inspirational suspense laden tale of hope that will remind readers of the King work The Dead Zone (book not TV series or Walken’s 80s movie) The story line is fast-paced and at its loftiest when John struggles with helping people cope with their problems not an easy task to achieve. When the tale leaves the psychological spiritual life after death environs into a good vs. evil thriller it increases the excitement and suspense, but loses a piece of what makes Jay Davis’ tale a unique homage to humanity’s ability to win against overwhelming odds.

Harriet Klausner

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