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The Turn of the Karmic Wheel (cover)
Literary
Monica Brinkman
Monica Brinkman
March 26, 2012 3392
MONICA BRINKMAN HAS A WINNER HERE by Sal Buttaci
(Updated: November 10, 2024)
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The familiar adage “What goes around comes around” has never been better depicted than in Monica Brinkman’s novel The Turn of the Karmic Wheel. The author succeeds in holding the reader’s interest with an extremely well constructed plot. Her distinct characters are made vivid by descriptions that appeal not only to visual but to auditory and olfactory impressions as well.

The familiar adage “What goes around comes around” has never been better depicted than in Monica Brinkman’s novel The Turn of the Karmic Wheel. The author succeeds in holding the reader’s interest with an extremely well constructed plot. Her distinct characters are made vivid by descriptions that appeal not only to visual but to auditory and olfactory impressions as well.

The question underlying Brinkman’s novel is “Can you release the darkness inside and exchange it for the music of the universe?” Can those entrenched in materialism, selfishness, and lack of compassion recognize these negativities as misguided priorities in time to turn their lives around and the karmic wheel from ultimately crushing them? Some can; some won‘t.

In Brinkman’s novel an angel who visited Angela Frank’s dreams in childhood now returns with celestial music and poetry to help characters like Angela’s husband Monty and others like him to see the light. The angel will also help them see in their mirrors the grotesque reflections of their inner selves: their bodies covered with boils from which ugly insects fly free, thick black and white fur sprouting from their skin, oozing black pus reeking from their pores.

Monica Brinkman has written an absolutely entertaining novel that also imparts a life lesson we would all do well to heed. There is more to life than satisfying our own wants and desires. We need to reach out and remember we all belong to one another. We need to wed the self and the other in order, as Brinkman writes, to “celebrate. . .a rebirth of souls.”

Hooked from the first to the last page, I highly recommend The Turn of the Karmic Wheel.

Published by All Things That Matter Press, the book and e-book are available at
http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/MonicaMBrinkman






The question underlying Brinkman’s novel is “Can you release the darkness inside and exchange it for the music of the universe?” Can those entrenched in materialism, selfishness, and lack of compassion recognize these negativities as misguided priorities in time to turn their lives around and the karmic wheel from ultimately crushing them?
Some can; some won‘t.

In Brinkman’s novel an angel who visited Angela Frank’s dreams in childhood now returns with celestial music and poetry to help characters like Angela’s husband Monty and others like him to see the light. The angel will also help them see in their mirrors the grotesque reflections of their inner selves: their bodies covered with boils from which ugly insects fly free, thick black and white fur sprouting from their skin, oozing black pus reeking from their pores.

Monica Brinkman has written an absolutely entertaining novel that also imparts a life lesson we would all do well to heed. There is more to life than satisfying our own wants and desires. We need to reach out and remember we all belong to one another. We need to wed the self and the other in order, as Brinkman writes, to “celebrate. . .a rebirth of souls.”

Hooked from the first to the last page, I highly recommend The Turn of the Karmic Wheel.

Published by All Things That Matter Press, the book and e-book are available at
http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/MonicaMBrinkman








The familiar adage “What goes around comes around” has never been better depicted than in Monica Brinkman’s novel The Turn of the Karmic Wheel. The author succeeds in holding the reader’s interest with an extremely well constructed plot. Her distinct characters are made vivid by descriptions that appeal not only to visual but to auditory and olfactory impressions as well.

The question underlying Brinkman’s novel is “Can you release the darkness inside and exchange it for the music of the universe?” Can those entrenched in materialism, selfishness, and lack of compassion recognize these negativities as misguided priorities in time to turn their lives around and the karmic wheel from ultimately crushing them?
Some can; some won‘t.

In Brinkman’s novel an angel who visited Angela Frank’s dreams in childhood now returns with celestial music and poetry to help characters like Angela’s husband Monty and others like him to see the light. The angel will also help them see in their mirrors the grotesque reflections of their inner selves: their bodies covered with boils from which ugly insects fly free, thick black and white fur sprouting from their skin, oozing black pus reeking from their pores.

Monica Brinkman has written an absolutely entertaining novel that also imparts a life lesson we would all do well to heed. There is more to life than satisfying our own wants and desires. We need to reach out and remember we all belong to one another. We need to wed the self and the other in order, as Brinkman writes, to “celebrate. . .a rebirth of souls.”

Hooked from the first to the last page, I highly recommend The Turn of the Karmic Wheel.

Published by All Things That Matter Press, the book and e-book are available at
http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/MonicaMBrinkman








The familiar adage “What goes around comes around” has never been better depicted than in Monica Brinkman’s novel The Turn of the Karmic Wheel. The author succeeds in holding the reader’s interest with an extremely well constructed plot. Her distinct characters are made vivid by descriptions that appeal not only to visual but to auditory and olfactory impressions as well.

The question underlying Brinkman’s novel is “Can you release the darkness inside and exchange it for the music of the universe?” Can those entrenched in materialism, selfishness, and lack of compassion recognize these negativities as misguided priorities in time to turn their lives around and the karmic wheel from ultimately crushing them?
Some can; some won‘t.

In Brinkman’s novel an angel who visited Angela Frank’s dreams in childhood now returns with celestial music and poetry to help characters like Angela’s husband Monty and others like him to see the light. The angel will also help them see in their mirrors the grotesque reflections of their inner selves: their bodies covered with boils from which ugly insects fly free, thick black and white fur sprouting from their skin, oozing black pus reeking from their pores.

Monica Brinkman has written an absolutely entertaining novel that also imparts a life lesson we would all do well to heed. There is more to life than satisfying our own wants and desires. We need to reach out and remember we all belong to one another. We need to wed the self and the other in order, as Brinkman writes, to “celebrate. . .a rebirth of souls.”

Hooked from the first to the last page, I highly recommend The Turn of the Karmic Wheel.

Published by All Things That Matter Press, the book and e-book are available at
http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/MonicaMBrinkman
Owner's reply August 23, 2012

Thank you Sal for such a wonderful review. So happy you embrace that Karmic Wheel.

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