Crescendo by Amy Weiss.
Once in a rare while you pick up a book and after just a few pages you realize that the author has good intentions with the book. The aim is not just to tell a good story, but rather they dearly hope to inspire, to give hope and to comfort. They wish to impact the reader's own story.
That is just what Amy Weiss does with:
"Crescendo"
(Hay House, 2017).
My inner voice as I read:
"You are hoping it is good
and yet
you have no idea
just how good this really is!".
This is a song, not a book.
Each line so poetically beautiful that it makes you draw a breath
as it draws you in from the very start.
Line after line of sentences of the caliber where just one would have made a book worth the read. It is full of beautiful and poetic imagery. Through this imagery Amy Weiss links you to yourself, to others, to love, to life and meaning. To healing.
Several times I stopped and articulated out loud:
"Wow, that is so beautiful! How did you do that? ".
Step into "the lake of time".
"The woman looks deep into the waters of the lake
and listens to the melody of her body being formed."
Crescendo is a book about a woman who loses the two loves that give her life meaning and drive. Her husband and their child.
"That is what grief does.
It steals the breath out of you,
turns you as cold and lifeless
as the one you mourn."
Yet this life of mourning is just the story that the human of this soul has told herself that the story is about. In truth (and it does ring so, so true) this book is about: soul contracts, past and future lives, death and NDEs, life, love, higher selves, time, parallel universes, grief, reunion and healing. (This book is about you.)
The author sings it to you in the most poetic of ways. In this song I recognized truth. In this song I heard whispers of comfort and love and hope. I became pages braver. I did. I grew to trust. Trust life and changes and myself.
As I read, so did my soul it seems.
My higher self.
We healed, we did.
We grew and ..... we both agree, my higher self and I, that this is a 5 star read.
I am excited for the readers that this book will reach. I am excited for the conversations it will start. I am excited for Amy Weiss and the ride that she is about to step on to. Good luck and thank you.
Mostly I am so very grateful for what this book has given me.
"Death is not loss;
it is simple the opportunity
to love one another
in a thousand different forms."
(Crescendo, 2017).
Amy Weiss is the author of "Crescendo" (Hay House, 2017)
and co-author of "Miracles Happen" (HarperOne, 2012).
Visit her at her site: Amy Weiss
Her facebook page: Amy Weiss
Review and photos by Cathrine Lødøen.
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Her life will be filled with lessons, for that is how the soul grows.
I finished reading Crescendo last week and I am still thinking about it.This is a beautifully told story about life, loss, grief and love. It is a small world because years ago I read Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian Weiss, who I found out is Amy Weiss’ father. If you haven’t read Many Lives, Many Masters I recommend it also, it is an incredible true story about past life experiences and reincarnation. Anyway, I’m digressing here a bit. Crescendo also revolves around the idea of past lives.At the heart of this story is Aria who loses her beloved husband in an accident and soon after she loses her child. All she has left is her horse as she starts walking through the forest of grief. This book had me tearing up early on. I was swept away by the writing, it was almost like reading poetry. The author perfectly writes about universal themes of grief, hope, love and reincarnation. On Aria’s journey, she comes across people who help her realize that we keep our loved ones with us forever. She is reminded that we live several lifetimes, reincarnating and learning lessons each time again and again infinitely. It is the choice each soul makes.I find the topic of re-incarnation to be fascinating and I do believe that we are old souls. I liked how Aria is reminded of her journey as she remembers her past lives and her loved ones. How she keeps coming back again and again with the soul of her husband throughout time. In that aspect he is with her always.I found wisdom within these pages and it was a moving experience. I could go on quoting passages, it is beautifully written and a new favorite book. I kept going back and re-reading lines. Aria’s journey was an emotional and profound one. The ending was perfect too and made me smile.
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