“If you’ve ever wondered about past lives, soulmate connections, or lessons we are supposed to learn in this lifetime, this book answers those burning questions. My eyes were glued to the pages and I could not put it down. I felt every emotion as if I were experiencing the story deep within. I laughed, I sobbed and I felt healed.” ”
Edna Gadoury (Reviewer) NetGalley
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Big Thanks to NetGalley, and John Hunt Publishing Ltd for the advanced ebook for the honest review. The best book I have read in a few years. Brilliantly done. It did have me in tears at parts. A sweet, thought- FILLED story.
“Superb! Must read!” The Paranormal Chronicles
“Kathleen Ready Dayan has used the concept of reincarnation as the basis for the storyline, wrapped in never-ending love, describing so beautifully through the lives of Joy and Jeremy and so many of the emotions we have all experienced as we travel our own journeys.” Bluewolf Reviews
Marta Ribeiro (Reviewer) NetGalley Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Usually I don’t read romance books, but the synopsis on this one left me intrigued, and let me tell you, it has all, a love that transcends time, pain, suffering, death, rebirth and above all hope in a future where we can be ourselves and happy, death is not the end, is basically the message of this book, after all dying is just like being born. The book starts before our main characters chose their next body to being born and their promise to find each other in their next life, but knowing that keeping the memories of their time in their beautiful garden of white flowers is next to impossible, and then goes through their childhood and all the things that changed their life forever, how some things keep their life grounded or made them apart or even bring them together aside the circumstances. Yeah you wont get spoilers from me, but this book touched me in may ways, for you to have an idea, I woke up some time before my alarm so I grabbed my kindle and I resumed reading, and what I was reading was touching me so deeply I was weeping while trying to be silent and my husband felt me trembling and asked me if I was alright, and I just said to him, is this book I am reading… Many things happen, but this book is true to life, and for that reason I know I cant recommend it enough, even if like me you don’t usually read romance, try this one, this one is different, if you read romance, read it anyway, it will touch your heart, of that I am sure, just like it touched mine. Just a word of advice, when you’re 30% to the end of the book, keep some tissues around you, you’ll need it.
Courtney C (Reviewer) | NetGalley
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. This was a new author for me . I never read anything from this author before but for the most part I really liked this book. I thought the whole story was amazing. I honestly didn’t want this book to end. I can’t wait to see what this author comes up with on the next book they write. I usually judge a book from the cover because for me it shows if it’s going to be interesting or not and I loved the book.
Aria Harlow (Reviewer) | NetGalley Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. This is an absolutely fantastic read, the writing is incredible and instantly engages you, the storyline is compelling and the characters are really well developed and believable. I found the idea so fascinating and I cannot wait to read more by this author
Sue Fernyhough (Educator) | NetGalley
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. A love story, with a different twist. Joy and Jeremy are reincarnated soul mates. They are born in the 1970s, close to each other, but to very different families. Joy is loved, Jeremy, not so. They are however, inseparable when they are children. Both their worlds take a turn for the worst when they are separated when Jeremy is taken into care and moved far away from Joy and the ocean. They are reunited years later, but Joy has changed and after blocking out the idea of seeing Jeremy again, has taken a different path to her life. Still very much attached to each other, they try to recapture the bond they had before, but with tragic results.
This is a very gripping book and well worth the read.
Linda Druijff (Reviewer) | NetGalley
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Elia and Kalli, Jeremy and Joy. The same people but in different worlds. Loosing each other, finding each other. An inseparable couple and their spiritual romance. Time traveling until they meet again. Great concept, well written, fast paced. Quite a wonderful journey.
Michelle Hood (Reviewer) |NetGalley
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. This is an absolutely wonderful romance story that transcends time. It is so rare for me to find a romantic story that completely draws me in but this one was gorgeous and totally unforgettable. Highly recommended.
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Exclusive Magazine Book Review
A beautifully written, elegantly crafted, and wholly embracing story, Before We Were Born: A Novel by author Kathleen Ready Dayan is a book that if you have ever wondered about past lives, how they could intersect, how the threads of time could possible exist, maybe even co-exist, then this is most definitely the novel for you to dive into.
It features within its engrossing page-turning chapters, a beautiful romance about a seemingly inseparable couple who are bound within a rather magical spiritual romance that transcends time.
Time traveling until they come upon one another again, the story is not only as exquisitely written as one could only hope that it would be by Dayan, but it is one where reincarnation, and the possibilities strewn throughout of it, will also give those not spiritually awoken, a chance to view things from the other side, so to speak.
Engaging from the off, and incorporating moments of heartbreak, jubilation, love, desire, devastation, hope and oh-so much more, Before We Were Born is a free flowing, keenly intuitive read that if you do not have tears coursing down your face at its conclusion, you are not human, my friend!
A novel chock full of past lives, soul mate connections, and a whole host of lessons written that we could do well to listen to here, in our every day, earth-tethered lives, Before We Were Born is a book that might just well answer a lot of back-burnered ponderance within the reader, whilst at the very same time be so emotive that you will soon find it very hard to put down.
“A fascinating, deftly written, memorable metaphysical novel, ‘Before We Were Born’ by novelist Kathleen Ready Dayan, is a unique and compelling read from the first page to last. With a special appeal to readers interested in reincarnation and occult fiction, ‘Before We Were Born’ is recommended for community library collections.” Midwest Book Reviews