Completed: 5/13/2021
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
The idea of being reborn is not new. This, sort of, Groundhog Day version kind of addresses time travel paradoxes and goes with the concept of parallel universes only the branches seem to occur whenever a person is reborn into their own life. Thus you get the chance to relive your life and try to live it better (with Chaos Theory playing a role, small changes can have big effects). Harry August relives most of the twentieth century and offers insights into how we can view the same events differently and how people can change for the better and for the worse. It is a good read, but it is not a light read. I think it takes time to consider all the implications.
Meanwhile, the prose is not compelling. The plot is fairly predictable (although the details are pretty interesting). There are two plot twists that are excellent and compelling but mean little to the book's outcome. The ending felt very predictable to me, although the jumps between lives and between time frames within those lives were disorienting and I occasionally lost track of which life and which event went with which life. Because the author, helpfully repeats details, one is not lost long.
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