When you stumble into a new book, you never know what you are going to get. It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, when I read a story, I get another piece of the puzzle for my own life. That’s exactly what happened to me the other night after I finished the metaphysical fiction, Changing Planes, by author Laurie J. Brenner.
I was very thankful that when the book came from Amazon, that it was a little book, a novella, if you will, because frankly, I just don’t have the time to read 1000 page novels. I love them, but I get lost after the first few pages. Not so with Changing Planes. When I opened it up and started reading, I couldn’t put it down.
I’m a writer myself, and I cannot describe my experience while reading this book. You’ll have to read it yourself to understand. The book seems alive — it came alive for me and I felt as if it were me going through these experiences. It gave me personal insight into my own life, without preaching to me and telling me what I needed to do — it did so through the simple unfolding of the story.
Everybody should read this book, especially women. And if you can get through it without crying, then your heart is more than hardened, it has turned to stone. Maybe this book is what you need to read. Maybe you experienced something similar to what it’s main character, Madison Reeves experienced. Her heart opens wide enough for us to see inside.
Changing Planes takes us into the world of Madison Reeves, a young and ambitious VP of an upper scale department store, about to embark on a Caribbean vacation and a whole new kind of journey.
When Madison reaches the airport terminal, it is here that she discovers that things are a little off, not quite right. She receives insight into the lives of her fellow travelers, wishing all the time that she didn’t — but she ignores these glimpses until she gets on board. After taking off, things heat up a bit until she realizes things have indeed gone awry in ways she simply doesn’t understand.
Madison can no longer deny that she left the ordinary world far behind as begins to see and hear things which her fellow travel companions don’t even notice.
When she disembarks her plane in a airport terminal hung suspended between the worlds of the living and the dead, Madison realizes she isn’t in “this” world any longer. This is confirmed when her long deceased grandfather meets her at her gate.
Madison is on a journey that most souls don’t get to remember or tell as she has found herself in the world between worlds — that place between the living and the dead.
What happens to you as you read this story, is something just short of a miracle as you begin to see yourself in Madison and experience what she experiences. By the time you reach the end (which you don’t want to happen), you are shocked clear out of your senses. You experience an ending that comes out of left field and truly takes you by surprise. It is here that you realize that all things are possible, not only for Madison, but for you as well.
Changing Planes not only made me laugh, it made me cry and gave me an opportunity to look into the mirror of my own soul.
But there’s much more to the book than that. Laurie J. Brenner is a true storyteller of old, taking you on a journey right out of this world, and bringing you back safely home, changed in the process.
I didn’t think I’d feel this way, but I didn’t want the story to end. This is Laurie Brenner’s first fiction novella, and I can’t wait to read what unfolds next from her writings. She’s an authentic storyteller, rare these days, and Changing Planes is delightful and easy read for any pallet.
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