Pleasantly surprised

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I was pleasantly surprised at how much I loved this book.
Very pretty cover. It was made more attractive when I learnt how the cover design is symbolic.

We follow four children growing up.
Right at the start I could see this was going to be “one of those reads” that you just had to ride along on the journey.

If you were made aware of a date and time on which you were going to die, would this be a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure myself, I’m completely sitting on the fence. In some instance it’s a good thing, in another it freaks me out.

The book is broken into four parts. Each sibling has a story to tell.
Each one is unique.

There is a strong sexual overdrive within this book which was essential to be written in, it wasn’t good but for some it may come as a shock.
So you’ve been warned.
Toward the end of the book it’s also difficult to read about animals being mistreated. The era and the mysterious reading of this book on the whole is a completely different aspect to any book I’ve read so far.

It was going to be a 3* but on reflection I’ve given it a 4* because the writing is complex, believable and oh so good.

It covers the start of the AIDS epidemic, and Las Vegas in the early 1980’s.

The author left me with some thought provoking material.