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Author name: Jeanie London

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780765354228
ISBN number: 0765354225
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: October 03, 2006
Publishing house: Tor Books
Sale Popularity Level: 755179
Studio: Tor Books



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Nina is dead and must make amends.

In life she refused to use her unique ability to see whether a soul ascends to Heaven or descends into Hell. Now, as a guide through the Passage between the living and the dead, she steers departing souls to Purgatory. But peace is hard to come by, even in the afterlife. Good and evil are fighting for control over the Passage--and Nina is determined not to let Hell take over.

Roman breaks the dead guy rules.

With his devilish charm and angelic looks, the newly-dead Roman can rally souls to fight—but on which side? His new Soul Retrieval Unit sounds like a good idea, but even in death, temptation lures Nina farther from salvation . . . or is she choosing Heaven by placing her soul in her lover’s care?
(20060101)



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Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Retrieval
Roman Barrymore is dead. As his soul is being fought over by angels and demons, he is given a choice by the captain of the angelic warriors; either dwell in purgatory, the threshold of heaven to repent, or delay eternity by rallying an army to fight for the passage between life and death.

Nina de Lacy has been dead for three hundred years. Currently her soul is trapped in the body of a living woman. Nina possesses an ability that will help Roman fight for the dominion of the passage. He must use Gray Talbot and Damian Hart to help him though. Gray and Damian were Nina's companions in life and continue to be in death. Retrieving her will not be easy but without her, good cannot triumph over evil.

Roman and Nina shouldn't be able to feel anything for each other but they do. What can come of an attraction between two dead souls though?

Retrieval is an extraordinary story. There are amazing theories and images; and the concepts of heaven, hell and the blurred lines in between are fascinating. Nina's ethereal beauty is matched by her magnificent personality and Roman is an extremely handsome and honorable man. I didn't want it to end because I wanted to see more of Roman and Nina together. Retrieval is intense, moving, action-packed, and sensual. It's a profound story that could easily become a fantastic series.


Nannette
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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Midnight Magic Sequel
The prequel of "Retrieval" began in "Midnight Magic" which is an anthology that came out in May 2006. It was a very good book and her story "Temptation" ended introducing Roman Barrymore, who is the hero in "Retrieval". I recommend reading "Temptation" before reading this book. It also sheds more light on Nina when she was younger and about her gift and how her relationship with the two lovers came about.
Midnight Magic



Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Not interesting enough to keep my attention
This is the very first time I ever picked up a book by this author and I'm not sure I will again. I never finished the book because it was pretty slow, jumped around a lot and I quit on page 102 of 340 pages and I'm not seeing much story development.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Way Too Paranormal
This reading was difficult from the gitgo. I am convinced that I like a "touch" of paranormal.. not this type of writing. This was so over the top. I got so confused with the Passage with the living and the dead... the threesome of Nina and her two beaus of 300 years ago...and the incredibly under-inspired way to retreive Nina's "crowding" from Katie.
I actually went back to the beginning THREE times to see what I had missed about the mystery of the painting in the antique shop. That didn't help either. I, like another reviewer got interested in the cover... thought it should be a good story. How wrong I was..I would not recommend this to anyone. My lesson?? Beware of clever packaging!


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Bubble Buster
I picked up this book because it had a cool cover and the blurb was interesting. I'm not sure if I would say I liked it, but it was well written enough that I finished it in 3 hours.

The story started at well. Roman, the hero, is director of a secret agency is assasinated. In the afterlife, an angel gives Roman a task or else. His task is to put together a team of souls to fight for dominion of the Passage. The Passage is something both the demons, angels, and souls that haven't moved on use. I'm still a little foggy on the concept.

Roman's very first task is to find his secret weapon which happens to be Nina. Nina, our heroine, is a 300 year old soul. To retrieve her soul since she has been under a veil and crowding another living person, Roman tracks down her protector lovers.

Side note: In her living life, Nina was about 25 years old and reclusive. I found it difficult to believe that a wealthy young woman of her time period would be in menage a trois w/ her noble guardian and her Scottish painter of a boyfriend.

Anyways, Roman helps retrieve her soul, and even though he's a newly dead he has been given advanced powers. In the process, Roman and Nina sort of fall in love w/ each other. So now Roman has to compete w/ Nina's past lovers who died w/ her and still follow her around 300 years later. The whole foursome love "rectangle" really didn't work for me, nor did reading about Nina's old threesome adventures. If the story is going to be about a romantic pairing between Roman and Nina, I really didn't want the details on Nina's past sexual tendencies.

The main plot of the story is about the fight of good and evil w/ demons doing something hokey in both the spiritual and the physical realm. Something along the lines of sucking out living souls to power charge a hose of lost souls to create an army. This was a little unclear to me as well.

Other than Nina's back history which explained her current personality. I found myself likeing Roman much more. How he fell in love w/ Nina I'm not sure. His character was a take charge alpha who has put together a butt kicking team of his former operatives who got assasinated as well. His character and his team appeared to be so butt kicking that it was bubble busting that when action finally came to fight demons, the only thing souls like him could do was run and .... hide in churches. Needless to say to build a covert grey ops team in the afterlife sounds cool, but if they can't fight and run and hide in churches....there something wrong w/ this picture.

As a previous reviewer wrote, the whole magical painting thing didn't really make sense either. Roman sees an old painting of Nina and her two boyfriends in an antique gallery and feels a connection to her even in the living world. In the afterwold, he's compelled to find her. The story could have done w/o the painting plot device because it didn't contribute to the story at all and was confusing. Why need the painting plot when the angel told Roman what to do anyways?

I'm not positive if there is a sequel, but the story doesn't really completely wrap up. A battle is fought and won by the angels, but what about the whole purpose of the Soul Retrieval Unit in the very first place, which was to fight for dominion of the Passage. There was never anything further about that task after Roman gets his team together or at the end.

I gave this book 3 stars because I did finish it one reading and I may pick up a sequel if I see it. But I wouldn't exactly recommend this book. For a book about the afterlife, angels and demons, it's not terribly preachy and is written in only generic in terms of good and evil. Hopefully, in future books the Soul Retrieval Unit will be able to learn how to kick demons around rather than hide in churches.

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