Life After Life is another book I picked after seeing it on many suggested reading lists. Happily, I agree with these reviewers. It’s disappointing when you don’t like a book after it’s been well reviewed. It makes me create elaborate scenarios about what the reviewer’s life must be like that he or she thought this book was worth my time.
I enjoyed this book so much while I was reading it that I started recommending it to people before I was even halfway through. This would be a great book club pick because there is so much to talk about.
The book has a simple plot. Ursula is born 1910 to a wealthy English banker and his wife. Every time Ursula dies, she goes back in time to the moment that caused her death and starts over.
For those of us who play video games, she respawns at her last save point.
We don’t know why she does this. I wasn’t entirely sure what was happening until the third time it happened, and then I reread the first two pages and realized that Ursula was on this planet to do something incredibly important. Her life was rebooted over and over so she could get to a moment in time where something happened that changed everything. What was this purpose? What was she supposed to do? How would she even know what to do this time?
Read more on my blog, complete with a ST:TNG reference and memories of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
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Great review. I did exactly the same thing you did with Choose Your Adventure books. This book sounds so good, I’m adding it to my TBR list immediately.