Crossings is a novel
written by Alex Landragin.
It is a novel with mystery, romance, adventure, and science fiction qualities. It has three short stories interconnected with a similar theme: people searching for a long-lost love.
The first story is about Charles Baudelaire, a famous poet who lives in Paris, who goes on a journey with some friends to Belgium. He has an accident in which he is nursed back to health by a mysterious woman who claims to be his former lover in a different body. He is skeptical at first, but as he realizes that her stories are true, he begins to fall in love again after giving up on it in the past.
The second story is taken place in 1940 Paris, France, at the beginning of Nazi occupation in World War 2. Walter Benjamin is an exiled German-Jew philosopher who meets a beautiful woman named Madeleine Blanc, who leads him into an adventure that surrounds a literacy conspiracy on the works of the famous poet Charles Baudelaire. This journey is full of excitement of love, coming across dangerous people who would do anything to get their hands on a famous manuscript by Charles Baudelaire and hiding from the Nazis how are invading Paris. Walter discovers a secret from Madeleine that involves the ability to cross your soul into another body. This secret makes Walter become involved in a century-old war with menacing fanatics.
The third and final story is about two natives on an Island called Oacctee, on which they have forbidden love. It is set in the 1700s, where Aula and her lover Koaho came across a French ship landing on their island. The natives have a unique ability to cross their souls into another body, which they did to the French sailors on their island. But disaster strikes when Koahu crosses with a sailor, and his body dies in the conflict, and Alula goes on a quest to find her lover that lasts for centuries and ends in the early 1900”s France.
It is the best novel I have ever read, and I recommend this book if you love adventure stories. The cool thing about this book is that you can either read it in the classic first to the last page or read it by searching for clue hints that are shown throughout the book; it is a lot like putting together a puzzle. It is definitely the kind of book you want to read over and over again!
