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norcalkt's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
auroraboringallofus's review
5.0
Clunky female characters (and their various breast shapes -- who cares?). But I'm still giving it 5 stars because it was so playful, engaging, and wide-reaching in its questions. It asks about the meditative & immediate relational questions, like who are we in essence, who are we to others, what is the value of daily living; but of course it asks about the obvious "life-after-death"/"place in the universe" conundrums. I didn't know where it would go and I enjoyed finding out. Something in it moved me, so 5 stars.
embchess's review
4.0
Life, death, afterlife, love, and loss. A memorable novel. While the details may fade (a reference readers will understand), the questions the novel poses will stay with me for, well, an eternity.
trishadenise's review
3.0
Peculiar book. I had a hard time getting through it, and the ending was awkward. But a fascinating read.
kathleenww's review
4.0
3.5 ⭐️ I wish this had two things: more developed main characters; and a stronger ending. I love the premise of this novel and the style it’s written in. A serious and fatal heart condition causes Jim to closely examine his own existence and the very meaning of life and what happens “after.” I wanted to know Jim and Annie much more than what I got here! Set in a near but imaginable future.
amn028's review
2.0
I'm not sure this story every determined what it wanted to be. The main topic was the possibility of an afterlife and what that could mean, but other storylines injected took away from this. Overall, it was a decent story but I never felt fully engaged in the plot or the characters.
juperez's review
4.0
A tender and often comical telling of one man's quest to discover the existence and depths of the afterlife — a journey that takes Jim Byrd to New Age churches, into an investigation of a haunted staircase, and in pursuit of a physicist who may or may not have constructed a machine with the ability to bring us in contact with the deceased. Thomas Pierce's first novel is layered with heart, humor and tremendous revelations concerning our technology-ridden lives.
nakelitaina's review
2.0
Ugh what a frustrating book. It’s like a hodgepodge of sci-fi, religion, family relationships, and ghosts. I found the main character, Jim, to be kind of clueless-someone just bumbling through life. I kept with it because I like an inventive, original story but I felt it to be very unsatisfying.
findyourgoldenhour's review
3.0
This is a weird little book (although not so little; it could use some editing). But I enjoyed reading it all the same. It was a bit all over the place, but I found myself looking forward to reading it. But it's...weird.