Immaculate White Smoke

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I am starting to recieve feedback.  This review came from a fellow author who read my book.  I might say that I have read her book of poetry and found it to be a moving work of art.  Here is what she said about "Immaculate White Smoke."

 

Joyce Ann

 

Immaculate White Smoke by Lew Duffey

 

A Review

 

If you enjoy a mystery story with a spiritual twist, as well as an intriguing novel within a novel to make you think and use your imagination, Immaculate White Smoke  is the one for you.

 

The story gets off to a fast start and stays that way right to the end with cowboys, ghosts and a loving couple who have to deal with both while remodeling their new home.   When one discovers a secret book in the attic, it takes them on a wild journey into the next life and beyond and changes the couple’s life forever.

 

If you have wondered about such things as bi-location, levitation, or spiritual encounters, there is plenty of mystique in this book as well to entertain you.

 

Lighthearted in its mood, Immaculate White Smoke has yet a deeper meaning.  It describes a condition in which two people, while out of their bodies, learn to communicate with one another, make “love” by entering another’s space,  and  finally, through an encounter with an “angel”  challenge and change their destiny as revealed to them by a spirit one could only call a “devil” by any other name.

 

Can two people influence the lives of the living for good or evil after death?  This  is something to wonder about.  Lew Duffey takes us on a journey to find out.

 

This is a book that can be read by young people or by adults who enjoy inspirational fiction.  In fact, this reader believes it would make a great movie for the general public as it stays within the boundaries for such films without becoming either mundane or overly pedantic.

 

 

****

 

Joyce Ann Edmondson

The Listening Tree

Falling Petals

 

 

Review for: Immaculate White Smoke, Lew Duffey

Immaculate White Smoke is an intriguing novel, filled with twists, turns, imagery and possibilities. A descriptively action-packed opening chapter captures the attention and keeps it, as the patchwork of lives and love stories quickly span over 150 years.

Lew Duffey has managed a pleasant blending of action, suspense, imagination and faith. In Immaculate White Smoke one is able to see heart-warming glimpses of love from the men’s perspectives as well as the women’s. Just the right amount of descriptive detail enhances the plot without breaking the flow of action or interest, and keeps one turning pages to see what may happen next. Faith is sprinkled into the mix with quiet subtlety, strengthening the plot while not overpowering it. Metaphysical notions are introduced, often with humor, but leaving details up to the reader’s imagination.

Immaculate White Smoke is a very well thought out story, an entertaining read and has potential as movie material. I highly recommend this book. Great work, Lew!

 

This was written by a fellow author. Connie Noguchi is the author of "Peridot Parables."  You can visit her site at

http://www.pikaplace.bravehost.com/

Immaculate White Smoke, April 11, 2007 Reviewer:    I, as a lover of ghost stories found Immaculate White Smoke to be one that kept me wondering what would happen next. Although this, is a ghost story; it's a love story -- a novel within a novel. The ghosts and the demonic being in this book haunt their subjects within the confines of the novel within a novel. It sounds confusing, but its not. A young newlywed couple move into the house and the husband finds a strange glowing book, which tells the tale of another newlywed couple who deal with the haunting with a spiritual twist -- good v/s evil. Immaculate White Smoke portrays it's ghosts as Arty the gunslinger from the old west and his barroom sweetheart, Andorra. The gunslinger is a sweet uneducated cowboy prankster, and his barroom gal has unfulfilled dreams of a quiet life on a farm. Arty made the deal. Andorra remained silent, turning the deal with the devil into something else all together. The bargain for their very souls is not set in stone. Thus, the twist comes into play in their haunting game. Mordrad, the demon rules the haunting game, and they must drive the owners of the farm house out or be thrown into outer darkness. Let's not give away the rest of the story, but let me tell you; it's a very good read -- imaginative, suspenseful and funny. Immaculate White Smoke would make a great family film. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel. Well-done Lew!