Ok this is a hard decision but a few of my favorites are:
WARNING: SOME SPOILERS AHEAD! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ SOME OF THE FOLLOWING NOVELS IT'S ADVISED THAT YOU DO NOT READ MY REVIEWS.
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Mirror's Edge:
I just love the intense story of this novel and the intense situation Sam is in as Joe Powell. It was like something my best friend and I would have written. Carol and I seem to share a lot of opinions on QL including about Sammy Jo and Abigale. I loved how Sam remembered Donna through his vivid dreams of her and being torn between the question of it being someone he knows or a brain connection with Powell causing him to dream his dreams. It was so touching how he got his memories of his beloved wife back and how she goes into the imaging chamber so husband and wife can finally see each other after so many years. I also liked the idea of Tom finding out Sam's secret of being lost in time. The leap was also an interesting one, and the thing that really wowed me was Powells wife being the little girl in
Killin' Time. The one thing that made me sad was the fact that Sam seemed to have grown away from his family even before he started leaping and how Tom was getting so mad about Sam missing so much before he knew his brother's secret cuz poor Sam its not his fault he can't get home. :'(
Overall great story, I always love unique situations such as
Killin' Time and The Evil Leapers.
Odessey
This was an adorable story. I loved how they had Sam leap into the boyfriend of a child Tina yet they don't tell you its her because she goes by Chrissi instead of Tina. She is an adorable charactor and I loved how Sam was very sweet with her. I always love to see Sam's sweet side in action. :dreaming . The story itself was great too, I loved how Sam helped Shaun's mom quit drinking and Shaun's relationship with Al in the waiting room. I loved how he wanted to remember Al and requested to leap back into his own world with a reminder of him in his hands.
Song and Dance
This was a very interesting story. Sam leaped into a young kid who helps tach piano with a young and very desturbed woman. His mom is going to participate in a dance contest and Sam needs to make sure her partner Marty shows up. According to the back of the book Marty turns out to be a familiar face and when I read that I instantly though of Marty Elroy the Bigimest whom Sam leaped into previously however in a few chapters before revealing his true identity he shows up at the dance club with the mom for a practice run and the mention of his bad breath gave it all away
I also loved Sam's relationship with Rebecca Wexler the young and desturbed piano intructor whom Sam assists. Her charactor confused me throughout the story as supposedly she has some big secret and there were chapters telling of her having vivid nightmares and I constantly wondered what it was all leading too. I love when a writer confuses you, thats the kind of writer I wish to one day be. I loved how Sam was very sweet with her. His narroration constantly spoke of how beautiful she was and at one point when they have a small dance in her living room he really likes the feel of her in his arms. And I am just a hopeless romantic who as I said before loves to see Sam's sweet side in action. :dreaming
Its an overall wonderful mystery story.
Angel's Unaware
Ok first of all Teresa Bruckner returns as a young adult, that's already the best part. This story I believe was very suspensful as it kept me wondering about various things all the time. Mostly when was she going to descover that Al kept his promise and returned to her, and that father O'keef was really Angel Sam and if Sam was ever going to get to eat. I mean poor baby he was denied a meal througout the entire book which both my BFF and I felt unecessary he was the priest he could have requested a small meal even after the kitchens were closed. I was hoping throughout the whole book that he would not get sick. This story also had a lot of good humor in it which is to be expected with Angela around which is another thing I loved about this novel anther appearence by Angela. I thought she was great in this book. I also liked the concept of the nuns being able to see Al and thought that he was an angel kissing a crucifix.
I was however confused by one thing and that's the woman and her son that the P.O.V occastionally went to. I did not understand who they were supposed to be except she was someone that knew the preist of course. Speaking of whom the preist was really a snob and mean. First of all we learn that Sam knew him in his past and that he had thrown his thesis on the floor, poor Sam. And also he was real snobby about Sam performing mass just becasue he was not a real preist. Its not like anyone would have known that as he appears as the preist.
I did however like the thing at the beginning of the story where we meet Father O'Keef hours before Sam leaps into him and he is playing a game of chess with none other than our favorite Scientist. It onlny refers to him as the former student however and boy did it ever confuse the hell out of me. It was a reference later in the story that clicked the light on.
The only thing I hate about this book is the end when we find out that Sam did all that work to save Teresa only so she can die of cancer about three years later. I was really mad at that because she was really glad to see Sam again and asked him to call her if he ever got home to go out for lunch or something. I thought that was really sad but I did however liked something that could not have happened had it ended with her still alive and that's when she told Al that his dad had made it ot heaven because of his praying for him.
great emotional story. To those of you that are not into mushy you may or may not enjoy this one.
Indepenence
Ok let me just say that no one could have written Sam's charactor better than a man, and this man did a wonderful job. John Peel, the series' sole male author completely captured me with this story. He did a wonderful job of writing this story and Sam's chractor especially because it involved Sam having a lot of male feelings and desires throughout the story. I thought it was brilliant to put Sam in an ancester that shared his name and his appearence. it mus have felt good to Sam to go by his own name. The story was great with him being in the middle of the Civil War and required to save a friend of his great several times grandfather. And I absolutly loved Hannah Samual's(the host not Sam Sam of course. The host is refered to as the complete Samuel while our hero goes by regular Sam to not be confusing.) wife. She conicenetly shared a lot of apparence of our Sam's beloved Donna which triggered male desires in our hero and it doesn't make anything better than Hannah is having some desires of her hubby in return. I also later in the story had picked up on something else. The Sam Becketts of the Beckett men seem to have some striek marring women with the double 'N' in their name. Ha
nnah is Samual's wife and Do
nna is Sam's. They even sound mildly alike. I think Sam handled the leap very well although it was confusing figuring out exactly his task for a while.
I also loved Samuel in the waiting room. He kept thinking he had been captured by the British and Beaks and Al were having a hard time telling him that they were not the British. I really wish I could see this story as an actual episode as I would just love to see Scott double as Samuel in the waiting room seeing as he and Sam are supposed to look alike and Terri Hatcher should come back as Donna's look-alike Hannah Beckett.
This one goes at the top of my list.
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I have read others of the novels as well but these one's captured my Attention, imagaination and interest the most.
