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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now reading my newest purchase, (it was just £0.99 at Amazon UK today), highly recommend by Time Magazine and some members of MobileRead.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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Interesting, and well-written, but an unsatisfactory ending spoiled it for me.
It's a science fiction or alternate history story but written as literary or historical fiction. So it's the characters and the depiction of them and their surroundings that's the central point of the book, and there is no resolution or even a hint as to why this person is living her life over and over again, which meant that for me the book just stopped rather than having any kind of satisfactory end point.
Disappointing.
Next I read
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction by Jo Walton
This is a few glimpses into her "small change" universe, but in the US, not the UK/Europe. I suspect I aleady had it in one of the Tor freebie collections, but I didn't realise. OK, but only if you've read some of her "small change" series, as there's no plot as such.
Now reading:
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Looking very good so far.