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Desert Son Paperback – February 13, 2014

by Glenn Maynard (Author)

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Carter Spence is a 26 year-old accountant out of Boston who has an out-of-body experience following a car accident that kills his parents. He views the chaos from above the scene of the accident, then passes through the tunnel and reunites with relatives who have long been dead. A woman he does not recognize approaches him and says, "Welcome, son." Her message to him is that he needs to be aware of his true identity and should follow signs that will lead him there. She mentions mountains, but Carter is jolted back into his physical body before she can finish. After burying his parents, Carter heads west and meets a free-spirit named Brenda, whom he is drawn to on many levels. She becomes his travelling companion and leads him to Boulder, Colorado, and to an old white house of an old man named Martin. Diaries, hypnosis, and past-life regression reveal a bizarre connection between these three. Carter discovers that the truth to his identity can only be found by pursuing the answer to whether he is the reincarnation of his biological father in what is shaping up to be a love affair rekindled beyond the grave.

Print length

188 pages
Language

English
Publication date

February 13, 2014
Dimensions

6 x 0.43 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1612963129
ISBN-13

978-1612963129
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Rose Writing; First Printing ed. edition (February 13, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612963129
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612963129
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches

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Glenn Maynard is the author of Strapped Into An American Dream, Desert Son Trilogy, and Chatroom With A View. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Connecticut, and a degree in Communications. After spending four years living in Denver, Colorado, he returned home to Connecticut and now resides in Wethersfield. Glenn has a son named Andrew. As a travel correspondent for three newspapers while exploring the United States, Canada and Mexico during his one-year RV journey, Glenn published a total of 20 newspaper articles. His story was captured on the NBC local news upon his return.

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A Novel of Life/Life After Death/And Life Again

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2017

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GM has written an unusual novel about the approach of death and how we as individuals listen the word of eternity sounds as loud as a blown horn. The main character's parents are killed when forced off the road which force which resulted in their death, but the song was ejected. You need to read this novel to understand the life after death presentation. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER

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Hemant Jain

Interesting Story ... could have been shorter

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014

Desert Son turned out to be a very interesting ‘out-of-body reading’ experience :)

The book starts out with an out-of-body experience and ends with the revelations of reincarnation of people revealing the past and present connections. The build-up of suspense is interesting.

The book begins with an accident which kills the protagonist and his parents resulting in an out-of-body experience of our protagonist. He goes through the mythical ‘tunnel of light’ to meet long deceased people. The description is eerie, scary and relaxing at the same time. He later comes back from the dead since a lady in the ‘heaven’ informs/directs him to discover his true identity … sending him back to complete unfinished business.

The book kind of gets a slow start - a significant portion in the beginning describing the out-of-body experience and the return (although some readers may indeed enjoy the descriptive heavenly journey)

The story soon catches pace as a few more characters are introduced and in the end the secrets are revealed and the dots are connected for the reader's. The plot is interesting and the author attempts to captivate the reader with the out-of-body experience as well as the reincarnation plot twists and the inter-connected relationships between the different characters.

The characters are interesting and you can feel the inner turmoil of the protagonist and the girl who joins his journey of self-discovery. You keep wondering why the girl is so interested and involved. It sort of never becomes clear as to why she got interested in something that she was running from, although she becomes an integral part of the story in the end.

The cover design is good although for a book with out-of-body experience and reincarnation at its core, the book cover could have been better. Now it seems like a love story in the desert.

Although there were times in the first half when I I found it too slow but once you hold on to it and read further, you are rewarded with an interesting climax.

Although a pretty interesting read ... I would still wish the first half was squeezed into just fewer pages and the book was no more than 125-150 pages long.

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mca

Not my usual type of read

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017

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Giving this a two because of errors & the fact that too much was crowded into to little space in telling of the story.
Note to author & proof readers. Pay closer attention to the proper uses of the words (then & than).
While I understand this story is fiction, "Rabies" shots are not something that are given UNLESS a person has been exposed to a rabid animal. In this story Carter is bitten by an animal & Brend asks when he had his last rabies shot. Errors like this cause me to lose interest fast. From that point on I pretty much just skimmed through to the end.
The ending was especially crowded with events that seemed to play out over a short period, but if in reality these things would have taken much more time. Don't rush the story.

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Interesting...but odd

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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It's hard to say how I feel about this book. It was interesting, yet some things just didn't make sense. I won't go into it and give any spoilers. I didn't care for the ending....maybe a follow up book to come?? I'll just leave you to make your own decision. It was definitely an interesting concept

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Linda C

Thought i would enjoy it but just didnt connect

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017

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Somehow i never warmed up to the main characters. I appreciate all the work the author put in to the details, but the characters did not draw me in. Easier to skim rather than read

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J Feeney

It draws you in on this young man's journey to becoming conscious

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2014

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This descriptive tale of a man's wake up call, stemming from a near death experience. Illustrates vividly, how intuitive we really are, should be chose to really listen. Glenn Maynard made you feel what this young man was feeling, going through this transition!

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Tonya Gauthier-Kellum

Interesting Read

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014

This is a story about a young man Carter who is in a horrible car accident and watches everything going on as his entire life flashes before him. The so called “out of body” experience. He describes everything he is seeing and is able to flash back and forth from place to place.

Just when he thinks the end is near he is sent back with a message to head west and find himself. I have always had a very hard time with stories that are from a one person perspective as I really like interaction and perspectives from multiple sides. So the beginning was very slow for me to get into as it really is all Carter describing everything going on, everything he see’s and does. There is minimal interaction with people in the hospital and at the funeral afterwards so I really did have to push through these parts.

Carter has several “adventures” I guess you could call them, or moments that one may not normally have in the course of their life so that did add to the book as it kept me wondering if it would eventually catch up to him. At times I wondered just how in the world did he get away with that. Was there some “force” that was driving him, keeping him on a path and from detection?

Carter winds up in Boulder, Colorado after giving Brenda a ride. A girl he met when he stopped on his travels. Something about Boulder pulled to him. Made him want to stay and figure out just what it was about the place. This is when the story picked up, there was finally some interaction, dialogue and story build up. And I finally got to where I wanted to see just what happens, what it is about this place that not only caused Carter pain but pulled him to stay as well.

Carter and Brenda seem to be on a collision with the past and the more they dig the more it is unraveled. I will say the ending is not what I expected. It was actually a much better ending than the start of the book. Slow start great finish.

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