New Book Alert: Souls On Fire: Memoirs of A Twin Flame (True Love's Journey) by Michelle White and Justin White; Witty Dark Novel About The Search For A Twin Flame

 New Book Alert: Souls On Fire: Memoirs of A Twin Flame (True Love's Journey) by Michelle White and Justin White; Witty Dark Novel About The Search For A Twin Flame

By Julie Sara Porter

Bookworm Reviews

Spoilers: Michelle and Justin White's book Souls On Fire Memoirs of a Twin Flame is a witty dark story about the modern search for one's Twin Flame. 

Michelle is depressed and anxious for many reasons. She is self conscious about her weight. She has been hospitalized for panic attacks and knee surgery. She and her husband, Ed, get into savage fights over various issues. She is miserable and unhappy at her job. She longs for an escape.

She finds her escape during a night out with another man. Like her, he is also married but they are drawn to each other and for the first time, Michelle feels real passion and emotion. Could their relationship mean more than sex? Could this be the escape that Michelle needs? Could she be getting a second chance to have a better life?

The Whites's narrative does some interesting things to change our perspective of the characters. With two characters contemplating an affair, some might feel very uncomfortable with their behavior. That is until the Reader learns how unhappy Michelle is in her regular life. Her emotions are naturally all over the place as she questions her body image, her job, and her marriage. Many passages such as one at work where she has to be hospitalized after a panic attack and a house party where Ed leaves her to do most of the work, reveal Michelle as a woman ready to crack. She needs something, anything, to help her break from this life before it kills her.

The date between Michelle and her future lover is told in second person with Michelle referring to him as "you" and never calling him by name. It's a strange decision but works somehow. The effect seems to be like Michelle is almost interviewing her date for the job of twin flame. Title notwithstanding, there is no sign that this person is even going to become her twin flame. They both have certain things in common like unhappy marriages and fuzzy definitions of marital fidelity. They also feel for each other things they haven't felt in a long time, passion, understanding, compassion. They found the person that they could be happy with but at the wrong time after they have been with someone else. 

Despite potential evidence to the contrary, the probable twin flames leave enough potential that one hopes that they will become so.