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John Edward McGee, Jr. was born October 19, 1969 in Glen Cove, New York. Edward says he was convinced at a young age that he could become a psychic. After writing his first book on the subject in 1998, Edward became a well-known and controversial figure in the United States through his shows show more broadcast on SCI FI Channel beginning in July 2000 and We TV since May 2006. Edward published his first book, One Last Time, in 1998. His related appearance on Larry King Live later in the year prompted enough phone calls to overload the show's switchboard. The next year, Edward had a show of his own. From 1999 to 2004, he was the producer and host of the show Crossing Over with John Edward, which has been syndicated and was broadcast on SCI FI Channel in the United States and on LIVINGtv in the UK. He has authored several books such as One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost, Practical Praying: Using the Rosary to Enhance Your Life, Infinite Quest: Develop Your Psychic Intuition to Take Charge of Your Life, and Fallen Masters. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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It is centered for a lost love stor, by the way book is awesome
 
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MuhammadTahir1 | 4 other reviews | Oct 18, 2021 |
Fallen Masters was a bit of a mixed bag. There were some aspects I liked about it, and some that really didn’t work for me at all. The basic premise of the story is that the forces of evil are trying to destroy the universe, and a select group of people who have the souls of certain individuals who have died most oppose them. I liked the concept of the story, but the execution was really weak at times.

The positives were that I thought for the most part the characters were well done. They were plausible and well developed, although there was a fair bit of repetition since most of the main characters on the good side had lost a spouse. Now to the problem areas. The whole dead people are positive or negative energies just didn’t work for me. It was fairly incoherent and not well explained. At times, the writing was so over the top flowery that I could barely read it at times. It wasn’t plausible based on the rules of the story that the forces of good could even prevail given that they had all of these rules like they couldn’t directly interfere with people but could only guide them, yet the forces of bad could do whatever they wanted. It would be like fighting someone with both hands tied behind your back. The ending of the story made no sense to me at all, and by the end I got so tired of the story that I just wanted to be done with it. All in all, there was just too much here that I didn’t like for the story to be enjoyable and I would not recommend it.

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Carl_Alves | 4 other reviews | Jan 26, 2020 |
As much as I would like to believe, this book didn't give me much to work with. I wish he had talked more about his psychic powers and what he thinks about life after death and less time trying to convince us that he is for real and whining about his spirit guides jerking him around. The chapter about his participation in a research study was totally laughable. He expressed surprise about the questions that he was asked when he appeared on the show "Dateline." Wouldn't you watch a show before you agreed to be a guest on it? The chapter on families of 9/11 victims sounded like exactly what he kept telling us, over and over and over again, that it wasn't -- exploiting them.

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R0BIN | 6 other reviews | Apr 27, 2013 |
Firstly, it should be noted that I received this book as part of the 'First Reads' program so it was delivered speedily to my door for free last week. Because of this I felt rather obligated to not only review it but also read this monolithic tome all the way through. At 500 pages this was a sense of obligation that I honestly could have lived very happily without.

From an editorial and stylistic standpoint this book is a travesty. The dialog is woefully in need of revision and tends to be distractingly inane. Characters are drawn out in some descriptive detail but when they speak all that was built is quickly eroded. Veteran cops, singers, psychics, doctors, all speak with sadly generic voices while teenagers address those around like they're seven years old. Where the dialog does not fail reality does as the author makes obvious blunders in simple fact checking. Since this is a pre-release copy perhaps some fact-checking will resolve some of the more obvious issues.

As story lines go, this is a fairly generic good versus evil scenario. The plot is simple but the people involved are all very complexly intertwined. I give the author good credit for keeping all this straight but ultimately it ends up feeling rather like bubble gum that has been chewed for too long. Half way through one almost cares about the characters and what is transpiring but by the end the gum has lost its flavor and one just wishes desperately to be finished with it. Edward's offering, sadly, for all the effort that obviously went into it has all the crescendo and drama of the phone book.
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