The idea of this book was brilliant. Another planet where about half the people from Earth reincarnate and, starting from their teen years, remember their lives fully? It should have been a fascinating read. Sadly, it's let down by two things; the language and its lack of alien touches. On a completely different world – not a colony or a transplanted Earth, a whole new planet – people eat toast and protein bars and use airplanes and phones. Now, maybe the author was just translating those things for us, and they're actually using something completely different, but I would have preferred to know the alien equivalent.

The language is too simple for its age group as well. This is aimed at teens but the language is more suited to ten or eleven. The action pretty much all happens off screen; this book boils down to a lot of people sitting around and talking about things. This can be fine if it's done well, but this one just fell flat I'm afraid.

There's a great story here. It just needs a little more work.


Thank you netgalley and Gazebo Bookworks for allowing me to read it. My review reflects my honest opinions.

DNF
Sorry NetGalley- this one sounded interesting but the writing is pretty unsophisticated. I hope the author will have a chance to take the plot line and workshop it further.

I enjoyed this book even though I am not in the intended age range for reading it.I thought it was highly original and I liked the main characters and the past life memories was a very interesting concept.Don't want to give too much away but the gaming aspect was also interesting.I would read more books by this author.Thanks to netgalley and the publishers for an ARC.