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A Symphony of Cicadas: Sometimes the End Is Just the Beginning (Forever After Series Book 1) (English Edition) Format Kindle

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Rachel Ashby thought she had it all. She was in the midst of blending her family with her fiancé John, and mere weeks away from their wedding. After a lifetime of disappointment, everything was finally falling in place – until she and her son lose their lives in an accident.
Rachel finds herself on a journey through the afterlife, forced to witness her family's grief as they try to move on without her. Unable to find her son, Rachel stays in the inbetween, struggling to remain close to John. But her efforts to stay connected prevent John from healing over his loss, and could put him in danger. The question is, how do you let go of the one you love?
Crissi Langwell has written a novel of love and loss in a portrait of one woman's journey, as well as the journey of those she left behind. A Symphony of Cicadas offers a beautiful yet somber glimpse into the mystical world of the afterlife, and the heartache and healing of the living after losing someone they love.
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Follow Crissi Langwell on Facebook at facebook.com/AuthorCrissiLangwell, or on Twitter @CrissiLangwell. When Crissi Langwell was a little girl, she used to entertain her younger sister at bedtime with shadow puppets and made up stories. Since then, Crissi discovered a passion for storytelling, from her own personal tales on her blog to stories that become reality on typed out pages. Crissi is a writer in Northern California. When not writing fiction, Crissi writes for her local newspaper, The Press Democrat, and maintains several of the newspaper's websites. She lives with her husband, three children, and a couple of very needy cats. Find out more at her website, CrissiLangwell.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BV6GYSE
  • Éditeur ‏ : ‎ North Coast Stories; 2e édition (30 décembre 2013)
  • Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
  • Taille du fichier ‏ : ‎ 2010 KB
  • Synthèse vocale ‏ : ‎ Activée
  • Lecteur d’écran  ‏ : ‎ Pris en charge
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Activé
  • Pense-bêtes ‏ : ‎ Sur Kindle Scribe
  • Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée  ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • Pagination - ISBN de l'édition imprimée de référence  ‏ : ‎ 0989066002
  • Commentaires client :
    4,3 4,3 sur 5 étoiles 30 évaluations

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Donald Sansone
5,0 sur 5 étoiles A Journey of the Soul
Commenté aux États-Unis le 8 juin 2013
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When I began reading A Symphony of Cicadas, I expected to be taken on a journey of the heart, but I never imagined I would be taken on a journey of the soul as well.

As the main character, Rachel, was propelled into the "life beyond life", the author artfully carries you along on her journey to share her experiences, and you learn and relearn the "lessons" that she struggles with along the way, many of which have profound implications for those of us still living on this side of the veil.

After being initially captivated by the characters in the story, I was then captivated by the theological implications of the reality that Rachel finds herself in, and how that world, so carefully crafted in the readers mind by the author, parallels the explanations of purgatory, which Catholic readers would be familiar with.

The mystical journey of love that Rachel is traveling, is a journey that we all are called to make, in my opinion, and therefore, I found some truly thought-provoking substance to the story that kept me wanting to read more. I actually burned through two batteries in my book light reading at night when I should have been sleeping!

According to my Kindle, I'm 87% of the way through the book. I can't wait to see how it ends, though I'll be disappointed when I'm done (always the sign of a great book, in my opinion)! And no matter how the story ends, the story itself has been a journey for me that was truly worth taking.

I could say more, but I've still got 13% of the book left to go, so I'm off to go read some more! Here's hoping there's a sequel!
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dean
4,0 sur 5 étoiles I like it
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 9 septembre 2014
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What an incredibly thoughtful book.
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Erin M.
4,0 sur 5 étoiles A love story and a ghost story
Commenté aux États-Unis le 24 novembre 2015
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Mere weeks before Rachel Ashby’s wedding to John, her best friend and soulmate, Rachel and her son Joey are killed in a car accident. Rachel’s life was just about to begin, it seemed, but now–it was over. Or was it? She wakes up at the scene of her death, confronted with a new reality complete with new physical laws. In her alternate world, she can manipulate the laws of time and space, traveling to the outer reaches of the galaxy and back in the blink of an eye; she can visit whomever, wherever, whenever she chooses. In spite of the seemingly limitless wonders of this afterlife, Rachel learns that she is actually in a kind of limbo, a dimension where the spirits of the dead who cannot let go of their connection to the living world, linger indefinitely until they are at last ready to leave and enter “Heaven.” Unable to take this final step, Rachel becomes obsessed with not being forgotten and “haunts” John relentlessly. Though he cannot see or hear her, she is, nevertheless, constantly on his mind, preventing him from moving on or even taking care of himself and his son. At first, Rachel is blind to the harm she is causing by clinging so tenaciously to the living world. It isn’t until her influence almost causes an event as tragic as her own death that she begins to change, to learn what it really means to love, and to accept that the most loving thing she can do… is to let go.

What I loved:
-Setting is extremely important in this novel, almost becoming a character in itself. Though it is primarily set in the Bay Area of northern California, we are swept away to exotic locations at the main character, Rachel’s, whims. From a whispery, cicada-filled forest, to the snowy summit of a Hawaiian volcano, to the very edge of our galaxy, Langwell’s descriptions of Rachel’s travels through time and space were quite beautiful and lyrical.
-A huge strength of this novel is that it gives a really empathetic treatment of characters who sometimes act or appear distasteful. Langwell gives us the gift of understanding that a sullen teenager craves discipline and boundaries; or that an overbearing, overshadowing sister is lonely; or that an overworked, emotionally-unavailable husband wants to be part of his family again but doesn’t know how. Over and over again, Langwell shows us more than one side of someone, perhaps tacitly reminding us to give others the benefit of the doubt.
-What I loved the most is a surprisingly prosaic thing, but one which I think separates good writers from bad writers–and that is an overall evenness to the story. Not once while reading did I think that a certain character, situation or plot point felt “out of place.” Not once did I notice a lack of consistency in the “rules” Langwell’s established in Rachel’s parallel dimension. What a pleasure to read such an intact work of writing!
-I admit that I can be a notoriously hard sell on a novel, and the first few pages of the book had me worried that I had stepped into a romance novel filled with gratuitous and (often) badly-written sex. But that is certainly not the case here. Langwell’s spare and poignant use of intimacy underscores a running theme throughout the book: the need and desire for human connection, the grasping at whatever vestiges of that connection remain when the one you love is lost… She does not rely on sex alone (or really much at all) to make this point.

What I didn't love:
-One or two times the story read like a personal essay, or an explanation of the conclusions Rachel was coming to on her personal journey. I found myself skimming over those sections and would have preferred if the author had trusted me as a reader to “get it,” and simply let the story speak for itself.
-It’s a personal preference, but the book was a little more sentimental than I typically like–though it stopped short of being maudlin.

I really liked A Symphony of Cicadas, and found myself connecting to it emotionally. (I cried, okay?!) It is certainly not what I would call a “difficult book”: It was easy to read, easy to understand.

Read the full review, and others, at www.writerreads.com
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Emma
5,0 sur 5 étoiles 4.5 stars - a touching story about loving enough to let go
Commenté aux États-Unis le 11 septembre 2013
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I enjoyed reading this book and think the idea of half-in half-out of our world (on the way to a final resting place) is an interesting one. I have read several books of this type in the past year, and always enjoy how each author brings his/her own vision to something that none of us can know while still alive: is there a life after death? is there a consciousness after death? Whatever the truth will be, the idea of having to let go of those you love so that they can be free is a powerful one - and one we can sometimes even apply while alive. The writing is good and the only reason I would have given a 4.5 if possible (I rounded up to 5 here) is that I felt that some of the events in the book were too contrived or just there to move the story to where the author wanted to take it. For example (*spoilers*) when Rachel almost has an accident on her way to her son's fitting, it doesn't increase the tension in the story, and it doesn't make the actual accident that causes her death any different - I didn't worry for Rachel or even think she shouldn't be driving when she took the wheel again. But these are small matters, and I enjoyed the story that was written with a lot of tenderness and emotion. I wasn't surprised when I read that it had been based on a dream, the feelings in the book resonate in a true-felt way.
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L. R.
4,0 sur 5 étoiles ' because it is hard to find a book that pulls you into the story as if you were in the shoes of each character—feeling their lo
Commenté aux États-Unis le 15 février 2017
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"A Symphony Of Cicadas" was a cleanly written, memorable and heartfelt story. Even with the wordiness that is expected in a debut novel (which I am also guilty of as a new author), Langwell brings a real-ness to the characters, which is felt in the color and honesty of her writing. I speak of a 'real-ness,' because it is hard to find a book that pulls you into the story as if you were in the shoes of each character—feeling their love and loss, joys and sorrows; and Langwell does this fabulously. With wonderful description, the middle-place the protagonist, Rachel, exists in is believable in both its darkness and its beauty. I loved that, because that is what life is, in all its fabulous chaos and fury. We not only live amidst the material world, but also inside our own perception. And we have more power than we know to affect our surroundings (people and environment).

All in all, the sincerity in the tone of Langwell's writing draws you into what feels like a real story of life after death. This is saying a lot, as it is that I am of atheistic mind, and am drawn more to concepts of science than of religiosity. But the tone of this story was not a religious one; it was spiritual, something that everyone can relate to, and wonder about. And Langwell painted a vibrant existence that portrays all the hardships we share in life and the insecurities and darkness we must face before we depart this Earth. With words in a book, writers like Langwell lead people and the world in becoming—not a perfect place—but a 'better' place."

Leah Reise, Author
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