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Changing Planes: Embark On A Journey of the Heart

When you find a new book by chance, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes, when I read a story, I go away with a deeper understanding and another piece of the puzzle for my own life. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I am thrilled to the core. That's exactly what I experienced the other night as I finished the metaphysical fiction -- Changing Planes, by award winning author Laurie J. Brenner.

When I opened up my order from Amazon, in a way, I was relieved it was not a big book. Though I love reading, I just don't have the time to read a longer novel, and my attention often wonders. No so with this little book, when I picked it up, I couldn't put it down until I was done.

Though it's my job to deal in words, I can't describe this book well enough to do it justice. It's better if you just read it yourself. I highly recommend that you do so. It's not expensive and it's the kind of book that you want to keep around, just to be able to give it to a friend. When I read it, it was like I was reading my own life, I identified with the main character that much.

This book needs to be read by millions, and preferably --- women, though from what I understand from the author's page, men have liked it too. But it's a woman's story through and through.

You'll join Madison Reeves, VP of a upper scale department store, as she is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. She doesn't know it as she heads for the airport on a Caribbean vacation, yet something nags at her, deep in the recesses of her mind. She senses something is about to happen. Little does she know what that will mean for her.

When Madison reaches the airport terminal, things begin to go awry, but not in a noticeable sense. After boarding the plane and taking off, the needled on the weird meter kick up a notch until Madison has to admit that something strange is indeed going on.

Madison can no longer deny that she left the ordinary world far behind as begins to see and hear things which her fellow travel companions don't even notice.

When she disembarks her plane in a airport terminal hung suspended between the worlds of the living and the dead, Madison realizes she isn't in "this" world any longer. This is confirmed when her long deceased grandfather meets her at her gate.

She is unaware that she is embarking on a journey few live to tell of, because she has found herself in that place between worlds, between the lands of the living and the dead.

As you follow along with Madison, you see yourself in her shoes, and experience what she experiences. And when you reach the end, you are jarred clear out of your senses. If you read this book and do not realize how our journey in this life is interwoven with the lives of those we love and touch and that small changes we make affect those around us -- then you must be asleep at the wheel.

In each page of Changing Planes, it was if there were a mirror looking back at me, reflecting back to me the image of myself in its pages. I found healing in between the pages of this wonderful little book.

But there's more to the book than that. A wonderful story, Laurie Brenner is a true storyteller that doesn't bog you down with words that have no meaning -- she gives you a succulent story and saves the best parts for last. The story is unforgettable and you find it staying with you days after you've put it down.

I didn't think I'd feel this way, but I didn't want the story to end. This is Laurie Brenner's first fiction novella, and I can't wait to read what unfolds next from her writings. She's an authentic storyteller, rare these days, and Changing Planes is delightful and easy read for any pallet.

Read the first three chapters for free of this engaging metaphysical fiction. Visit www.ChangingPlanes.net now! Written by Jenny Long