Review by Twylla -- The Receptionist by Marie-Paul Corelli
Posted: 06 May 2020, 09:58
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Receptionist" by Marie-Paul Corelli.]
In The Receptionist by Marie-Paul Corelli, healthy people are dying due to horrific fright, and the crimes are caused by some type of supernatural phenomena. Former CIA operative Joe Ventana joins forces with Lieutenant Dan Donovan of the Manhattan Police Department to solve cases of mysterious deaths happening across the country. Joe has connections to a British government official named Lord Byron, an expert in the paranormal and the occult. Within two weeks of starting the investigation, Joe receives a call from an old friend he worked with at the CIA, John Brown, who tells a similar story about his 27-year-old granddaughter, Esme. She is being attacked psychically, and he is desperate for help. Joe picks up the trail of Lana Dinkins, a Jamaican obeah sorceress. She appears to be linked to all of the assaults. Lord Byron contacts his friends, the Maidens of Mercy, a group of ladies who feel it is their duty to fight demons and help victims of the supernatural.
The most impressive thing about this story is the realism in the details. For example, near the end of the story when the police are searching Lana Dinkins home, they found a machine. One of them instantly recognized it as a “psychotronic generator.” In the 1950s, Czech researcher, Robert Pavlita, developed devices which he called "psychotronic generator” instruments that were designed to capture a human's mental or biological energy, store it like a psychic battery and then release it on command either mechanically or electromagnetically. Psychotronic weapons have been used to torture people. They can cause an individual to hear words in their head, and they can cause injury to a person.
Another example is when one of the Maidens of Mercy said, “That evil demonic monster is not just sending thought forms, and servitors she, the sorceress is actually there herself, in her etheric state.” A “thought-form” is a nonphysical entity or object created by thought that exists in the mental plane or the Astral Plane. A “servitor” is essentially a servant that you create to do your bidding. It is a creature created on the astral plane that performs a certain task which you require. Out of body travel in an “etheric state” is a phenomenon based on the belief that individual consciousness can leave the physical body during sleep or trance and travel to distant places or into an ethereal or astral realm.
At first, I thought the story was a metaphor for good versus evil, and it was teaching a lesson of the importance of rooting evil out of your life. But the details are too realistic and too close to the edge of occultism.
I also got the impression that English is a second language for the author. If that is the case, the author did a fantastic job of writing a story like this in a second language. Even though there were many grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors, the author still told a compelling story. I am giving this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. I would recommend this book to mature adults who are interested in the occult and the paranormal.
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The Receptionist
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In The Receptionist by Marie-Paul Corelli, healthy people are dying due to horrific fright, and the crimes are caused by some type of supernatural phenomena. Former CIA operative Joe Ventana joins forces with Lieutenant Dan Donovan of the Manhattan Police Department to solve cases of mysterious deaths happening across the country. Joe has connections to a British government official named Lord Byron, an expert in the paranormal and the occult. Within two weeks of starting the investigation, Joe receives a call from an old friend he worked with at the CIA, John Brown, who tells a similar story about his 27-year-old granddaughter, Esme. She is being attacked psychically, and he is desperate for help. Joe picks up the trail of Lana Dinkins, a Jamaican obeah sorceress. She appears to be linked to all of the assaults. Lord Byron contacts his friends, the Maidens of Mercy, a group of ladies who feel it is their duty to fight demons and help victims of the supernatural.
The most impressive thing about this story is the realism in the details. For example, near the end of the story when the police are searching Lana Dinkins home, they found a machine. One of them instantly recognized it as a “psychotronic generator.” In the 1950s, Czech researcher, Robert Pavlita, developed devices which he called "psychotronic generator” instruments that were designed to capture a human's mental or biological energy, store it like a psychic battery and then release it on command either mechanically or electromagnetically. Psychotronic weapons have been used to torture people. They can cause an individual to hear words in their head, and they can cause injury to a person.
Another example is when one of the Maidens of Mercy said, “That evil demonic monster is not just sending thought forms, and servitors she, the sorceress is actually there herself, in her etheric state.” A “thought-form” is a nonphysical entity or object created by thought that exists in the mental plane or the Astral Plane. A “servitor” is essentially a servant that you create to do your bidding. It is a creature created on the astral plane that performs a certain task which you require. Out of body travel in an “etheric state” is a phenomenon based on the belief that individual consciousness can leave the physical body during sleep or trance and travel to distant places or into an ethereal or astral realm.
At first, I thought the story was a metaphor for good versus evil, and it was teaching a lesson of the importance of rooting evil out of your life. But the details are too realistic and too close to the edge of occultism.
I also got the impression that English is a second language for the author. If that is the case, the author did a fantastic job of writing a story like this in a second language. Even though there were many grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors, the author still told a compelling story. I am giving this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. I would recommend this book to mature adults who are interested in the occult and the paranormal.
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The Receptionist
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon