![]() Though suspense is attempted with a message passed on from the future threatening that the end of the world is coming, there are really no stakes because everything is undone when Harry “dies.” Harry is also a very flat character, which makes it difficult to care too much about what happens to him. Therefore, he repeatedly has to start his life over as a child even though he has the memories and knowledge of many years and lifetimes. It’s kind of like “Groundhog Day,” but instead of reliving the same day over and over, Harry is reborn after death in the same time and place every time. Spoiler-Free Review: “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August” tells the story of Harry, a man who never really dies, but continues to relive his life over and over again. However, if anything, my experience reading this book only reinforced why I don’t normally read sci-fi… It wasn’t bad by any means, but it wasn’t great either. The premise of “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August” sounded really intriguing, so I was excited to finally be able to download this one on Audible. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of my reading goals this year has been to read more science fiction because it’s not a genre I normally gravitate toward. ![]()
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