Flight from Rebirth

3.5 stars
Originally posted at FanLit.

I picked up Flight from Rebirth by J.T. McIntosh because it was on sale at Audible. I wasn???t familiar with the book or the author (J.T. McIntosh is a penname of James Murdoch MacGregor, a Scottish writer).

The story is about a man named Benny Rice who appears to be a pleasant mentally challenged man who works at a low-level job in a futuristic United States. It soon becomes apparent to the reader that Benny is a lot more functional than he seems. McIntosh teases us with this until the end ??? who is Benny? Is he really mentally challenged? If not, why is he pretending to be? Who is he hiding from, and why? Add to that his society???s strange process of Rebirth ??? reincarnation for the few people who???ve proved themselves worthy to carry on the human genome ??? and you???ve got quite a mystery.

It was this mystery and the fast pace that kept me intrigued by Flight from... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/flight-from-rebirth/