Rendezvous With Hymera by Melinda De Ross
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This Romanian author is a journalist who has a passion to write Romantic Suspense. This is her first book in her career.

Storyline: Clara, a writer by profession decides to spend a vacation in a countryside resort for about a month along with her Golden Retriever, Tony. There she encounters her teenage crush Colin, who now is a successful journalist. They fall in love with each other once again. Meanwhile, Clara experiences some strange feelings of seeing a ghost of a young girl in the resort lake and will be able to feel her presence once in a while. Colin and Clara investigate this mysterious girl and find that this girl named Eva Aris disappeared from this same resort some years ago and her missing case is still unsolved. After more inquiry they arrive at an astonishing fact that there exists three worlds
1. The material world (the one we live in)
2. The Astral World (which corresponds to purgatory) and
3. The spiritual world (Heaven).
This girl Eva died while practicing some dangerous stages of Yoga that could give some paranormal powers if mastered, but at the same time could prove fatal if the practicing person is indecisive, undisciplined and untrained. Eva’s soul which was trapped between some two worlds of existence unable to pass through, has made her soul wander between these worlds unable to get released. Finally, her soul gets released by the Yoga teacher who used to train her in her initial yoga training.

Pros: A good mix of romance with suspense. The story of Eva Aris gives a great moral of the superior and fatal affects of Yoga, unless practiced under able guidance and will power. Many aspects of spiritual interest have been highlighted by the author, with simultaneous insights about the Eastern cultures and her inclination to respect ideologies of other religions other than Christianity. It is nice to read philosophy in-between a Romantic Suspense, a rare phenomenon in many such books. I would like to credit this book as more of knowledge-based than a simple romantic suspense.

Cons: The ending of the story was quite abrupt and simple. The reader might have expected a rather little more longer and sophisticated closing arrangement.

My favourite quote in this book :
“I think being romantic is the capacity to turn an ordinary moment in something dream-like”

My rating is 3 out of 5


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