Meet Me in Another Life
Ratings9
Average rating4
I won't forget this brilliant novel in a hurry. Beautiful written, it tells the stories of Santi and Thora who keep meeting in different lifetimes in Cologne, at different ages and with different relationships to each other. The plot is gripping and the author skillfully releases hints of what's happening all the way through, though it is not easy to guess what's happening. The magic of the book though comes through the beautiful way she writes about the characters and their relationships and how they change over time. This is a deeply philosophical novel that certainly makes you think, but without being overtly complicated or inaccessible. It crosses genres and is totally different, and I hope it wins the awards it deserves.
I received an advanced review copy for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
This book gave me the closest thing to The Night Circus vibes that I've come across since reading The Night Circus. It has that dream-like quality to it.
Other feel-alikes that came to mind while I read this, include The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Time Traveler's Wife.
3.5 stars.
On the whole, I enjoy this. Though, there were several times that I found Thora and Santi tedious. When the book becomes just talking, talking, talking. Not too many ways around that, in a book like this. But it was still good. But some lives are so brief, filled with so much talking, occasionally I found myself disconnected from the characters. Except the cat.