Awaken

Double shot of Rose

Awaken A Rose Caldwell Tale by J M Bannon

and a bonus chapter. 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on both.

The book starts with Rose s youth and becoming a nun. Proceeding to the death of her childhood friend. When Rose and the other two nuns arrived at the home of the Masons.

When Rose and the other two nuns arrived, they met up with the local Vicar and sheriff. They could also hear the people outside making comments about how they scaffolding came down.

{Interesting side note -IMO- most of the nuns of that era are even more timid than they are today}.

Rose had a vision after being told she was only supposed to dust the books in the reliquary — but not to read or study them. They aren t “holy” enough to do so.

By the middle of September 1851 Rose decides to improve her reading skills (which seems to run counter to the majority of the old French nuns) even though the Mother Superior “Says that the younger English nuns should read better”. Her learning has to be secretive.

During this time as she learned more and improved her reading abilities, she still had visions and was trying to figure out who she saw that reminded her of King Aethelred (the plate picture was made centuries ago).

Washing hands before you eat was a rarity for the era. It didn t become accepted practice till the early to mid 20th century.

{Rose keeps trying to be a good Christian nun, yet she seems to channel the older Gods and Goddesses. She finally begins to question whether she should ve become a nun. Since learning to read and the languages she s picked up, and starting to show a natural ability whense.

The book seems centered on the 3 sisters whom The Romans took from the Greeks: The Romans took many of these gods and goddesses from the Greeks. Minerva was Athena, the second was Nemesis or as the Romans called her Invidia. The third was Artemis or Diana.

Rose searches for and finds a small coven of Wiccans (though in the book the author used the colloquial term: witches) luckily they follow the light. They worship the Earth Mother {Earth Mother.”
“She has gone by different names for many people. To the Greeks she was Gaia, to the Egyptians Isis, to the Celts, our ancestors she is Gwenhwyfar in all her beauty and ferocity.”}

In another vision, Rose learns that some of the Christian saints and angels are just as evil as the demons they would banish. Yet she still has false beliefs and wishes to blindly follow the false aspects of her faith {extremely odd IMO}. Even when she s in the time period of the convent, rather than use her reasoning she ll hang her self than use her brain/head for anything other than placement of her wipple.

Time passes and minor mysteries get solved, at least answers are presented that seem plausible.

She must have a pack of the Christian guardian angels looking out for her.

More to come . . . .

Awaken: Rose in London Chapter
A Rose Caldwell Tale by J M Bannon

I somehow misplaced the review I had for this book. So, here I go again:
Start 16 June 2018 @1931. Fin 16 June 2018 @2108

I wish I could find where I filed the original review of this short, short story that can stand as a prequel to Awakening. However, that s not quite right. This tale takes place after Rose arrives in London and it seems to beckon the chronicler to expand it into a new book.

John Shrek Walters