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bobinsbooknook 's review for:
Meet Me in Another Life
by Catriona Silvey
adventurous
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
When reading the promise of this book I figured I would either love it or hate it… sadly for me this just fell into the latter.
I actually quite enjoyed the first few chapters; sharing a short story style of writing demonstrating various types of love and bonds was quite intriguing and emotional but sadly it went quickly down hill.
After the first few ‘life’ iterations it became a slog to read as ultimately most of their lives were forgettable and boring - it didn’t feel like the characters really developed in any significant way and just had the same argument and conversations over and over again. I honestly felt like over the course of the first 60% that nothing had really happened to the characters or plot that I didn’t already or expect from very early on.
There are some points in the book which were clearly meant to be emotional pivot points but a lot of them really didn’t delve deep enough to get a response for me - part of this may been cause I didn’t really care for the characters at all. I found Thora to be quite a grating personality and Santi was written in a way for him to come across as deeply profound - but really just talks a lot of none sense and rubbish constantly!
Overall not a fan and probably should have DNF’d as this took me so long to get through as an audio book!