I ploughed through it, and struggled with the decision of putting it down and calling it a day or finishing it. Then it starts with the night Ursla was born, and sadly because the theme of the book is repeating the lives of Ursla, you get to read a situation too many times, meet an abidance of characters that you first want to remember should they make an appearance later, then you realise they are as useful as reading people’s names and addresses in the phone book just for fun, and go into a well described yet often mundane details to the point of exasperation. It starts off with a mystery as well, a drastic action by Ursla, and you are so intrigued wanting to know what happened to deliver Ursla to this point. It explores the question many of us seek answer to: if you’ve been given the chance to relive your life, would you make the same mistakes again? Would Deja Vu be able to iron out he mistakes of your past? It does sound like something you’d want to read about, doesn’t it? The concept is lovely, Ursla Todd seems to have cheated death when she was born and seems to have the ability to relive her life again and again, and remember in deja vu style how the other lives went. I’m sorry to say, despite the legions of fans and glittering names recommending this book, that I wasn’t very much impressed. I however finally decided to read it and its semi-sequel, for I’m in desperate need of a book that sucks me into its world and leaves reality behind. The only reason I’ve put up reading this one was its sheer-volume of 600+ pages. I also got its semi-sequel, the second novel “A God in Ruins” that is based on another character but its not necessarily a continuation of the original story. I have not one but two copies of life after life on my bookshelves, for whenever I’ve visited a bookstore for the past few years I’ve seen it on the best seller and highly acclaimed list of novels. Book Review: Life After Live by Kate Atkinson
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