Soul (edition 2008)

by Tobsha Learner

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Title:	Soul
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Set in two different centuries, this intriguing story questions whether the potential to be a killer can be passed on from one generation to the next. Lavinia, living in the 17th Century, is married to Col. James Huntington. Although she entered the marriage with high hopes, she discovers her husband is keeping a secret that eventually destroys their marriage, and leads Lavinia down a path she never imagined. Centuries later, Lavinia's great granddaughter, Julia, is a genetic scientist working to find the gene enables a person to kill with remorse. While expecting her first child, Julia's life is turned upside down when her husband leaves her for her best friend. What makes a killer nature or nurture? These two stories explore this question, while providing intriguing story lines that are hard to put down. Both stories will keep the reader fascinated as the characters struggle with complicated emotions that range from love to hate. (

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reina10 | Jan 9, 2009 |

So this is 'fictional science' more than science fiction. Pretend genetic research in an (overly time-stamped) 2002 that is shadowed by events in the mid-late 1800's does not speculative, nor science fiction make. Not a problem unless that is what one is expecting, I suppose.But like I parenthesised, way too time-stamped. Who are these people and events you are referencing, totally dating and damaging your prose with, m'dear? Oh wait, they are so obvious I cannot miss them. The past bits are better. (

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bzedan | Nov 17, 2008 |

I was going to give this only 4.5 stars but then I realised that there was nothing I really disliked it. Compelling, painful in the right way, and very clever. (

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Learner’s The Witch of Cologne is an erotically-charged novel of people swept inexorably along by events they could not control. In Soul, Learner relates the story of Lavinia and Julia Huntington, passionate women trapped in emotional whirlpools that threaten to drown them and everyone they love.

In 19th century Britain, Lavinia is married to an older man who seems to appreciate her lively curiosity. Lavinia proves to be an apt pupil in both the study and the bedroom, glorying in the pleasures of the physical.

In 21st century Los Angeles, geneticist Julia is trying to identify people who can kill without remorse. Stunned to discover that she seems to possess the trait she is looking for, Julia is reassured of her emotions by her intense passion for her husband and her delight in her pregnancy.

In the past, Lavinia’s desire for her husband grows, but his cools as he becomes fascinated with another. In the present, Julia’s love overwhelms her husband, who leaves her.

Lavinia and Julia feel the tortures of passion unspent. Cold logic tells them that the deaths of their tormentors will bring them peace. Separated by a hundred years, two Huntington women face the same decision. Their choices will echo far into the future.

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"In 1860, twenty-year-old Lavinia Huntington is transported from her Irish village to start a new life in Mayfair, London, as the wife of a gentleman anthropologist thirty years her senior. One year later she is standing trial for his murder. In modern-day Los Angeles, forty-year-old professor Julia Huntington, geneticist, returns from a field trip to Afghanistan. She has received a prestigious commission from the US Defense Department to research a genetic propensity to kill without remorse."--Book jacket."Soul is a story of two women, across two eras, and their struggle with obsessive love and revenge"--Book jacket.… (more)

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