Book Info: Genre: ParanormalReading Level: AdultRecommended for: People who like a reading experience that is sensual, with beautiful language, paranormal, romantic fiction, those interested in past lives and reincarnationBook Available: May 7, 2013 in hardcover, Kindle and Audiobook formats; find out how to receive swag if you preorder a hardcover by following this link (where formatting allowed)Trigger Warnings: attempted murder, human sacrificeMy Thoughts: From the first line, “Every story be...

I don't believe in saving 5 stars as if no book is worthy. I use 5 stars here because this book masterfully took me on a journey I was completely a participant in, and it blew me away. I was lucky enough to be able to read a pre-release copy of SEDUCTION. I was excited, because M.J. Rose has never let me down. She is an incredibly talented writer. I enjoy the Reincarnationist series, and SEDUCTION follows the previous in the series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES. The character of Jac L'Etoile is i...

Giveaway on my blog!Jac L’Etoile has returned to the States from France, leaving behind the love of her life, Griffin North, and facing an uncertain future in terms of lost motivation and a lack of direction. In Connecticut, her old therapist and mentor, Malachai, shows her the secret and ancient rock formations on his family's estate that appear to be Celtic; the revelation helps jolt Jac out of her fugue, but more so does the letter she discovers Malachai has been hiding from her, a letter fro...

Find the enhanced version of this and other reviews at: http://flashlightcommentary.blogspot....Is it possible to be intoxicated by the written word? I don't know that I'd given the idea much thought before reading M.J. Rose's Seduction, but afterward I'm inclined to say it is. Few authors have as distinct a writing style as Rose, at least in my experience. Her narrative is heavy, though like a heady perfume, it reveals a beautiful array of notes the longer it is allowed to breathe. From the fir...

M.J. Rose’s Seduction moves between the haunted world of Victor Hugo in 1855 on the Isle of Jersey after the death of his daughter and the equally problematic life of Rose’s modern heroine, Jac L’Etoile, a mythologist and innately talented perfumer with a tragic past. The book opens with news of the drowning of Hugo’s daughter, Didine, and subsequent attempts to contact her through séances. Hugo, the great French rationalist and defender of secular justice, becomes obsessed with the dead, even t...

Seduction brings back some of the characters that you met when reading M.J. Rose's last novel The Book Of Lost Fragrances, so there will be some familiar faces here, especially for those of us that have been reading The Reincarnationist Series. (These books can be read as stand alone novels, but I think in this case, it might be helpful if you had read the previous book in the series)This book, like the others in this series, blends past and present beautifully, bringing the life of Victor Hugo

I am going to start with a huge disclaimer about my review of this book. I didn't enjoy this as much as I expected, mainly because it wasn't the book I expected to read.To be honest, that is my own fault. I have read a number of M J Rose's books before and liked them well enough, but after reading the third book in her Reincarnationist series I decided that was enough for me. It's not that I didn't enjoy the books I read but thrillers aren't really my thing and I am not invested in the paranorma...

Probably one of the most interesting premises that I’ve read in awhile, Seduction gives us not only an inside look into the secret life of Victor Hugo, but an indepth study on reincarnation. Seduction tells the story from three view points: One in the 1800’s (Hugo’s diary), one from an ancient Druid clan, and one in the modern day.The title is very apt. The writing is sweeping and ethereal. It seduces your senses to a point where Hugo, Owain, Jac and Theo are all you can think about. Their lives...

Posted First on Blog Critics.Anatomy of seduction from Wikipedia: seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade or induce to engage in sexual behavior. When the past and the present combine to create the power of seduction, often lives collide.In Seduction by M.J.Rose, we learn a great deal about the novelist Victor Hugo, an author from the early 1800’s who lost his daughter to drowning. Unable to cope wi...

Having read The Book of Lost Fragrances in March 2012, when I saw Seduction on Netgalley I couldn’t resist! I was looking forward to getting involved in Jac’s life once more.Seduction (The Reincarnationist #5) is told in two timelines. We spend time in the mid 1850’s with Victor Hugo and in the present time with Jac.We begin in 1843. While Victor Hugo is on holiday with his mistress, he reads about the death of his daughter Leopoldine. Then in 1855 he is on his self-imposed political exile in Je...

Read my full review @ http://bit.ly/1037C6MMy opinion: The Reincarnationist series is one of my favorite series. I have said before that Ms. Rose is a master of writing within multiple genres including very light horror. I think the author disagreed with me on this, but this series is what I talk about when I say that. I don't feel that this book classifies as a thriller. The breadth of what Seduction is deeper than your everday thriller and presents itself as chilling down to the spine.Seductio...

The title of this novel is suggestive of a book of romance, but the "seduction" that plays out in the lives of the characters is a much more powerful seductress than love. The controversial belief in reincarnation and its connection to past lives and troubled memories provides a maze which must be navigated in order to answer questions crucial to the present-day lives and sanity of two tortured misfits who possess unusual insights into times before they existed. The island of Jersey in the Chann...

After hearing of his daughter’s death, Victor Hugo starts communicating with the dead. Hoping to bring him closer to his daughter. However the dead are not just satisfied with talking. They want more. Particularly one known as the Shadow of the Sepulcher.Jac is contacted by a friend. Her friend has found some Celtic ruins. Jac travels to the Isle of Jersey. There Jac uncovers the secret behind who the Shadow of the Sepulcher was and what he wanted with Victor. It was great to see Jac again who a...