Starts well, with clever ideas for a kind-of time travelling story. The middle section, set in russia in the cold war, is tedious. This part is made harder to plough through because the main character is grey and boring.The last third of it got better. I gave it three stars for the brilliant idea,...
Really cool premise and different take on time travel/reincarnation. Occasionally got too caught up in the philosophy and scientific talk and there were parts that felt more like filler. The ending was a bit quick and anticlimactic but really enjoyed the book as a whole.
If you've ever read Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life', this is a little bit like it. It's not so much a story of reincarnation over different lifetimes, but rebirth at the same time and point in history, and reliving it all over again (not dissimilar to the movie 'Groundhog Day). Such incarnates are...
ABR's full The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.Harry August dies at the end of each life only to be reborn as himself, an orphaned bastard in the early 20th Century; and each time he remembers…everything. At first he thinks he i...
Publication Date: Available Now from Orbit Source: Purchased Copy As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. “I nearly missed you, Doctor August,” she says. “I need to send a message.” This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and ...
This book by Claire North (one of the author's pseudonyms) was excellent and I loved it. I love time-travel stories as it is, but so much research went into this book, unlike a lot of other’s in the genre, that it was astounding. Not only that though, the story was one of skill, that weaved through ...
No man ever steps in the same river twiceMove over Plato, Pythagoras and Parmenides. Make way for Claire North.Plato gave us his theory of forms, Pythagoras brought us transmigration of the soul beginning a new life in a fresh body (although of course he wasn���t the first), and Parmenides explained...
This just never grabbed me. The idea was great and original but the execution left me empty. I wanted to care about the character and the intrigue and the story but I was just never invested into.It seemed like the years jumped around too much for me. Keeping straight which life was which and the...
I'm going against the grain here, as I didn't think this book was as wonderful as other reviewers. Although I'm not a fan of Sci Fi / Fantasy, I don't think that was why this didn't appeal. I think it was the repetition. OK, we didn't have to go through every one of his fifteen lives in full detail,...
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