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A review by mazlietlotes
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
3.0
It's an idea most of us have thought of, at least I think so, and it was wonderful to have it in written form. Reincarnation and killing Hitler, redoing our mistakes and making new ones because of it, the things that never change and the people we are destined to meet, all in one big mush of timelines and re-does.
There were a lot of things I liked about the book - how it told different stories of abuse that women in the 20st century England could go through, how women could be brave and what kind of choices they could make, how it told about the complexities of people and families and love, and the mix of "let's kill Hitler" in it all.
But in the end it didn't go anywhere, it was like a ball of thread that looks promising, but every time you pull at one it turns out to be just a part of the whole thing, and you have to start all over again. It was stories on stories on stories on stories and I closed the book and didn't feel much for Ursula, there were too many lives and I didn't know which one to feel for.
A good book, would recommend to anyone. Not life-changing, but entertaining.
There were a lot of things I liked about the book - how it told different stories of abuse that women in the 20st century England could go through, how women could be brave and what kind of choices they could make, how it told about the complexities of people and families and love, and the mix of "let's kill Hitler" in it all.
But in the end it didn't go anywhere, it was like a ball of thread that looks promising, but every time you pull at one it turns out to be just a part of the whole thing, and you have to start all over again. It was stories on stories on stories on stories and I closed the book and didn't feel much for Ursula, there were too many lives and I didn't know which one to feel for.
A good book, would recommend to anyone. Not life-changing, but entertaining.