It's a little all over the place. I get what the author was trying to do and I think the past lives thing can be done well (especially in a romance--that's like the ideal genre to pull a past lives trope in), but it just didn't seem to click. I never reached a point where I felt connected to any of the characters, especially the past lives. I think there was maybe just too much going on and too much jumping around. The pacing threw me off. The best executions of this trope that I've seen tend to be like, chronological vignettes, which I think is more what I was expecting here.
It WAS a sweet story and I do think a lot of people will like it a lot. This is the second book I've read by this author (first was Mosquitoland) and the common theme between them for me seems to be that there's a cool central idea but the execution isn't what I wanted, which really just comes down to me having different taste than him.
Overall, not bad but not a standout to me.
It WAS a sweet story and I do think a lot of people will like it a lot. This is the second book I've read by this author (first was Mosquitoland) and the common theme between them for me seems to be that there's a cool central idea but the execution isn't what I wanted, which really just comes down to me having different taste than him.
Overall, not bad but not a standout to me.