mentioned that I had seemingly recovered once before and then relapsed. He insisted on a fairly long period of observation before I could be released.
Well, screw that! I knew there was no chance of a relapse, and I was eager to get back into the world again, a world I would now see with new eyes. Even more, I wanted to start practicing the skills I had learned from Taliesin and the others. So I did a bit of “practicing” at the hospital. One by one I got my doctors alone, and I sang to them a little in Welsh. Of course, the song had my new-found magic woven into it. They never remembered my spell-casting afterwords, but one by one they came around to the idea that they would really not need to keep me in the hospital as long as they had once thought. Taliesin’s memories warned me not to push too hard with this kind of magic, and, impatient as I was, I took his wisdom to heart. A gentle nudge here, a little tweak there, and in the end I still got what I wanted—out of the hospital. Out into a world that I would perhaps surprise more than it could ever surprise me. What did I want to do? Be a rock star—literally? Well, now I could be if I wanted. Psychologist? If I could fix the mess in my own head, Joe Average’s typical neurosis would be no match for me! A whole range of possibilities I had never even considered now opened up before me. Superhero? Well, I could work magic. I’d probably not want to advertise that fact, so in a sense I would have a secret identity.
Maybe I would be a freak. Well, if so, I was damn well going to be the best freak I could!
If you enjoyed “Echoes from My Past Lives,” be sure to try Living with Your Past Selves , the award winning novel in the same series.
Living with Your Past Selves is set four years after the end of “Echoes from My Past Lives,” and Tal has recovered from the sudden emergence of past life memories that nearly cost him his sanity. In fact, just as Taliesin predicted, Tal is beginning to realize that having hundreds of lives worth of accumulated knowledge can be a blessing. Tal is still mastering both his music and his magic, and his life is not without its complications, but he is managing…until Stan begins to suspect his secret, and Stan isn't the only one. Suddenly, Tal is under attack from a mysterious enemy and under the protection of an equally mysterious friend whose agenda Tal can't quite figure out. An apparition predicts his death. A shape shifter disguised as Stan attacks him. An old adversary starts acting like a friend. He and some other students get hurled into Annwn (the Otherworld), face Morgan Le Fay, and only just barely get back alive—and that’s just during the first month of school!
By now it is obvious to Tal that he is not the only one who can work magic and certainly not the only one who can remember the past. He realizes there is something that he is not remembering, something that could save his life or end it, some reason for the attacks on him that, as they escalate, threaten not only him but everyone he loves as well. In an effort to save them, he will have to risk not only his life, but even his soul.
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"Debut author Hiatt offers an engrossing coming-of-age story richly infused with ancient mythology and Arthurian tales...A fast paced, emotionally nuanced page-turner."- Kirkus Reviews
" Living with Your Past Selves cast a spell of enchantment on me from the first page and held me within its grips to the very last page. Bill Hiatt weaves an alluring tale filled with magic, spells, good versus evil, fairies, reincarnation and friendship...characters in this story