Virtual Blog Tour: Review: Touchdown by Yael Levy #YaelLevy

Welcome to my stop on the JKSCommunications Virtual Blog Tour for 

Yael Levy's Touchdown. 

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New York socialite Goldie Fischer seems to have it all: wealth, beauty, and a fiancé to die for. Until she’s murdered on her wedding night by a jealous witch and instantaneously loses everything. Angry and seeking revenge, Goldie becomes a dybbuk-- her soul possesses the body of Southern football hero Clay Harper and she refuses to join the light until the wrongs are rectified. 

Only Clay has issues of his own and doesn’t take kindly to a petulant New Yorker in his head, interfering in his already messed up life. When Goldie promises to leave if Clay helps her break up the wedding between her fiancé and the witch who killed her, Clay reluctantly agrees. Only neither of them are prepared for the chain of events that follow. 

Through the journey of two disparate people on a quest to make things right, Touchdown is a funny yet heartbreaking look about what it takes to truly know another soul and what it means to love.

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REVIEW

I wasn't too keen on this book when I first started reading it. There was just something that kept me from connecting with the story and its characters. Perhaps it was the pacing or something about the way it was written, flipping between Goldie and Clay, but I just wasn't 'feeling' the book like I normally would.

It was only when they found themselves in limbo and were then sucked back into Clay's life that things really started to get interesting, I couldn't put this book down. The interactions between these two souls, and their reactions to the people and events around them was at times hilarious and at times a little crazy, which made this a fantastic, entertaining read.

Goldie is a strong, in-your-face character, and I loved her passion for life, literally and figuratively. She wanted to live so badly, she even contemplated living the rest of her years in the body of another person. Clay on the other hand was a little more subdued. He had dreams and goals, but was always putting them on the backburner for everyone else. It was only when Goldie pushed him that he really started to live outside the little box his father, his coach, his girlfriend, and the rest of his home town, had placed him in. I was happy that he had someone like Leigh who always stood by him.

It wasn't only the excitement of these two souls sharing one body that kept this book alive, though. It was the fascinating twist of re-incarnation and a love that has stood the test of time that really made this story warm my heart. It also held so many life lessons, and I'm sure everyone who reads this story will look at their own lives a little differently. What truly makes us happy? Are we living the life we really want, or are we living the life that is safe, and just makes sense at the time? 

This was a really great, thought-provoking read that made me laugh, broke my heart, and touched my soul.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A freelance illustrator and journalist, Yael Levy has been published in numerous venues, including The Jerusalem Post during her three-year stay in Israel just east of the bustling capital city of Tel Aviv.

She holds a degree in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. But it’s the questioning journalist inside her that has launched a new career in writing literature. Her debut novel Brooklyn Love (Sept. 17, 2012, Crimson Romance) hones in on Levy’s interest in the underlying thoughts and expressions of the Orthodox Jewish culture.

A native New Yorker, Levy currently writes for The Times of Israel about her experiences as a Jewish mother now living in Atlanta. She is also studying for a Masters in Law at Emory University.

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