I received a free copy from First to Read in exchange for an honest review.
The information from the book description sums it up perfectly: “Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking.”
We follow Milo through his thousands of lives, deaths, and afterlives. True to life, he’s not always an adult when he dies. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s heartbreaking. Sometimes it’s stupid. Sometimes it’s just comical.
What’s different, though, is his relationship with Suzie, who is actually Death. After every death she meets him on the side of the river between the worlds. Around page 100 I actually began to care about what happened to these two and hoped their story would ultimately end well.
What I really enjoyed was that the story was not told in sequential order. We jump forward and backward through Milo’s lives to relive his experiences. I also looked that some of Suzie’s history was given to us as well.
The book ultimately hopped to a satisfying ending.
5 stars.
True Blue 