Daughter by Spirit

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: After reading the editorial reviews and other readers reviews, I was expecting an intense storyline with a heartwarming ending. Instead, what I got was a story that took way too long to get to the point of the story and mediocre writing. The first few chapters jumped from person to person and started getting a bit confusing. The ending was sappy and everything in between was just o.k. Hopefully his next book will be a lot better.

Rating:
Summary: Touching!
Review: Can a man and a woman have a platonic relationship based on mutual admiration and love? You will have the answer to this question when you finish reading V. Anthony Rivers' Daughter by Spirit. Moving and touching can best describe this novel. The positive and negative elements of love, hope, friendship, jealousy and deceit are plentiful.

Christian and Maiya are both searching for love and someone to share it with. Their paths cross but the timing isn't right. Maiya accepts Christian as her friend and Christian admires Maiya for her fighting spirit. Together they form an emotional bond of friendship that no one can tear apart.

Maiya encounters turmoil in her life and makes an earth shattering decision.
Angelina, Maiya's daughter, is sixteen and has always believed that Christian was her father. Angelina knows Christian through his poetry, articles, letters to her mother and through her mother's own words. What occurs when Angelina finds the truth? Will she continue to feel that spiritual connection to Christian?

This novel offers insight on love and friendship by forcing you to reflect on those that are most important to you. The contexts of Christian's letters to Maiya empower and motivate and are often lyrical in nature. The following is an example of this: "God placed me on a path of consciousness recently that united sincerity with determination and focus."

Daughter By Spirit is quick and absorbing read that may have you discussing what you would have done in Maiya's shoes.

Rating:
Summary: Touching!
Review: Can a man and a woman have a platonic relationship based on mutual admiration and love? You will have the answer to this question when you finish reading V. Anthony Rivers' Daughter by Spirit. Moving and touching can best describe this novel. The positive and negative elements of love, hope, friendship, jealousy and deceit are plentiful.

Christian and Maiya are both searching for love and someone to share it with. Their paths cross but the timing isn't right. Maiya accepts Christian as her friend and Christian admires Maiya for her fighting spirit. Together they form an emotional bond of friendship that no one can tear apart.

Maiya encounters turmoil in her life and makes an earth shattering decision.
Angelina, Maiya's daughter, is sixteen and has always believed that Christian was her father. Angelina knows Christian through his poetry, articles, letters to her mother and through her mother's own words. What occurs when Angelina finds the truth? Will she continue to feel that spiritual connection to Christian?

This novel offers insight on love and friendship by forcing you to reflect on those that are most important to you. The contexts of Christian's letters to Maiya empower and motivate and are often lyrical in nature. The following is an example of this: "God placed me on a path of consciousness recently that united sincerity with determination and focus."

Daughter By Spirit is quick and absorbing read that may have you discussing what you would have done in Maiya's shoes.

Rating:
Summary: Spiritually Speaking
Review: Christian was the type of man every woman seeks: kind, loving, compassionate and sexy as all get out. Maiya knew a good thing when she saw it. Unfortunately, after a bit of a struggle, so did Tanya. Maiya was also too good of a friend to try to take what she knew could never be hers. However, that didn't stop her from raising her daughter to believe that a man that she had never been intimate with was her father. Her intentions were good: what was the point in letting her daughter know what a heinous man her real father was when she had such a sterling example of manhood to use instead. And that is what she did. Angelina grows up strong, confident, certain of her love for a man she has never met. But we all know that lies told in the dark eventually come to light. And the best intentions mean nothing when the person they were meant to protect ends up hurt anyway. When Angelina eventually learns the truth, will she be able to handle it? And will she ever trust her mother again, even though she has not always been so forthright herself?

V. Anthony Rivers writes a story that we don't usually get the pleasure of reading. A story that shows a man who values friendship, love and positive living, without apology. He also shows how we must be careful how we live our lives because you never know how much what you say and do can influence someone else's life. Additionally, he teaches the meaning of true, lasting, heartfelt friendship. I would highly recommend this book to all who want to experience a different type of read from the perspective of a truly sensitive man!

Rating:
Summary: Friends Until the End
Review: Daughter By Spirit is certainly the perfect title for a story about love and friendship until the end.

I'm sure most of us would love to have a friend like Christian.
While Maiya could not have the kind of love she wanted with Christian she had something better an undying love and friendship.
Daughter by Spirit was an interesting story one that I enjoyed reading but I will have to admit it was not all that I'd hoped for . A good story on love and friendship.
I still can't imagine Maiya not going on with her life and finding the love of her life after some seventeen years.
I thought if Tanya could move on Maiya certainly could or should have.
The story did not really affect me the way some of the reviewers mentioned . All in All I'll give this one 3.8 *
Certainly more than 3 but a little less than 4* .

A story I enjoyed reading with the ending over before I knew it. An ending where I thought, is that the end?

Rating:
Summary: Friends Until the End
Review: Daughter By Spirit is certainly the perfect title for a story about love and friendship until the end.

I'm sure most of us would love to have a friend like Christian.
While Maiya could not have the kind of love she wanted with Christian she had something better an undying love and friendship.
Daughter by Spirit was an interesting story one that I enjoyed reading but I will have to admit it was not all that I'd hoped for . A good story on love and friendship.
I still can't imagine Maiya not going on with her life and finding the love of her life after some seventeen years.
I thought if Tanya could move on Maiya certainly could or should have.
The story did not really affect me the way some of the reviewers mentioned . All in All I'll give this one 3.8 *
Certainly more than 3 but a little less than 4* .

A story I enjoyed reading with the ending over before I knew it. An ending where I thought, is that the end?

Rating:
Summary: Powerful !!
Review: I enjoyed this book so much..... It made me laugh, cry and remember all the beautiful & ugly experiences that I've ever encountered in present & past friendships and relationships. I never wanted to put the book down. Mr. Rivers keeps you in anticipation always. Mr. Rivers, is definitely on his way to the top with all the other big time writer's.

Many Blessings To Come....

Rating:
Summary: Lessons on love
Review: If you want to renew the feelings of love, I highly recommend this novel. Daughter By Spirit touches every fiber and essence of relationships. Mothers to Daughter, Friends, Lovers and even hatred and betrayal. V. Anthony Rivers beautifully illustrates the importance of expressing love and kindness in every aspect of life. The depths of emotions enriches the soul to assist all readers with positive energy. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

Rating:
Summary: A refreshing book on friendship
Review: Rivers has written a very convincing and refreshing book on friendship between a man and a woman. Redefining friendship as an intimate and spiritual relationship without sex, Rivers explores this concept with Christian and Maiya. These two characters develop such a strong emotional and spiritual bond between them that is powerful and inspiring. When Rivers throws us a few surprises that disrupts Christian's and Maiya's relationship, we read how Maiya kept the spiritual bond within her and passed it on to her daughter, Angelina.

However, no relationship is a solid one without honesty and trust. Both Angelina and Maiya learns this the hard way when Maiya keeps a secret from Angelina and Angelina discovers the secret. When Angelina knows, it threatens to break down that spiritual bond between her and Maiya, but Christian's spirit carries them through and forges a new and more real relationship between the two.

Rivers has a written an emotional and spiritual story that may truly touch the hearts of many. It is a well written story with believable characters, interesting plot, strong dialogue, and inspiring messages on the power of love and the spirit.

Rating:
Summary: what would you do to protect your child?
Review: The heroine of Daughter By Spirit is an unwed mother who decides to tell a lie for her child's sake. Her daughter Angelina grows up thinking that Christian, a wonderful and upstanding man is her true father. He's not and when the truth comes out it is the emotional climax of the novel. I really liked this book. The characters are well written. You may agree with Maiya's decision but you understand it. This book is about love, friendship and the power of fatherhood. Check this out today and you'll be glad you did.

Kimberley Wilson, author of 11 Things Mama Should Have Told You About Men