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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life tried very hard to be an intelligent book. It failed. It tried again. Failed again. And tried and failed until it ended. Very much like Ursula who's born and dies. She's reborn. Dies. Reborn. Dies.
For 90% of the book you're left wondering as to why an unassuming girl from nowhere in Britain keeps getting reincarnated. Till the big reveal in the last few chapters, which was so bleh, I wanted to kill me (but didn't. Because, like darling Ursula here, I know I won't magically be born again)
There's not a single character you can actually care for. Sylvie is a mum from hell. Hugh is an absent father. And a cocktail of siblings. Even though Atkinson's prose is pure British, this book is simply nothing to write home about.
Thoroughly disappointed.
For 90% of the book you're left wondering as to why an unassuming girl from nowhere in Britain keeps getting reincarnated. Till the big reveal in the last few chapters, which was so bleh, I wanted to kill me (but didn't. Because, like darling Ursula here, I know I won't magically be born again)
There's not a single character you can actually care for. Sylvie is a mum from hell. Hugh is an absent father. And a cocktail of siblings. Even though Atkinson's prose is pure British, this book is simply nothing to write home about.
Thoroughly disappointed.