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Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

34 reviews

sarahkouk's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

In short,

we're all going to die, do let the bullies win.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Cancer, Classism, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Cannibalism, Mental illness, Excrement, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Colonisation, Child abuse, Torture, Confinement, Gun violence, Murder, War, and Vomit

Minor: Incest, Terminal illness, Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

lakeofstars's review

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

unfortunately this was (very clearly) written by a straight white man. the best aspects are Really Fucking Good!! it's just there's also the... SA as a plot device... real world racial slurs in Deeply Otherworldly scifi setting... rather one-dimensional female characters.... 

i also felt like the ending fizzled despite the great build-up.


i mean, i liked it enough to read it again. and recommend it. i do recommend this book. just with a GIANT warning label.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Animal death, Racial slurs, Rape, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Gore, Incest, Racism, and Sexual assault

casspetroff's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Racial slurs, and Rape

alistu's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Why did he have to say the n-word, the message would've come across with literally any made up slur. There was no reason. The author is a white man, this was written in 2017... But I don't think the book should be edited to exclude this word now, it's a great topic of conversation. Is it okay for white people to say the n-word in literature? Why? What makes it different then actually speaking it? Or writing it online? 

It was a good read otherwise, sometimes sweet, a lot of the times fucked up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Body horror, Racial slurs, and Violence

bidatie's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

So unique and interesting to read. Certainly some points with some tough pills to swallow, but overall a solid read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Trafficking, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, and Slavery

nicinlos's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

readerette's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Unnecessarily long and repetitive, but funny and relatively engaging as Milo learns from his lives. The magic/fantasy bit doesn't fully make sense if you interrogate it, so you have to just go with it for the story to work. Reminds me of Midnight Library because this is a somewhat philosophical book about death and living well, too. Well written and interesting concept. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

geometrica1's review

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

oh man, i did not enjoy this. it’s about a man reaching perfection and he has ten THOUSAND lives to do it. you’d think he would have learned something. i like the way the author writes, but not what he writes about.

trigger warning: r*pe, violence

he’s very much a white savior type. not to mention this story uses actual assault and trafficking as a plot device where it is absolutely not necessary. it’s ridiculous. this doesn’t even MENTION the amount of violence the author describes IN DETAIL in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Trafficking, Violence, Gore, and Rape

maeanimates's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Body horror, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, Rape, and Sexual assault

katethepodtherapyartist's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I wanted to like this book, I did. The plot sounded interesting, and the cover art was like an inviting beacon saying “read me!”

The story follows Milo, a man who has lived 9995 lives, and has 5 more to reach Perfection in the afterlife or be sent to oblivion. But none of that has mattered to him before because Death (aka - Suzie) is his only reason for being. The only reason he keeps being reincarnated and dying. She is his love. So now Milo has 5 chances to figure how to become one with everything and get it right. 

It was overall not my cup of tea. The pacing was all over the place for me. Suzie, the love interest, is barely in it and we know nothing about her. I feel like for as central to the plot as Milo trying to reach Perfection and be with her forever, I know very little about their love for each other, their history, etc. I was told they love each other, but I didn’t see it, I didn’t feel it - I was told, not shown. I felt like I was watching a movie where things happen, but I feel 0 connection to any of the characters. Milo is a deeply flawed, and often sexist, character, but that doesn’t matter because he’s a cool, wise, awesome dude once he dies (please note the sarcasm). Actions in life do have an impact on what kind of house you have in the afterlife and what/who you’re reincarnated as in your next life, but it fell flat for me. Milo has countless iterations of being a terrible person and the most he gets as punishment is a bad house and waking up in a well. How terrible. 

There were some interesting passages and quotes, but overall it was not a satisfying read for me. Definitely won’t be a reread, as I found much of the book deeply uncomfortable and leaving me feeling gross. I’m not a reader that needs or uses trigger warnings, but boy howdy is this a book that needs them for a lot of readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Torture, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, and Violence