The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

A very tedious and drawn out reading experience. This book is really repetitive in style. The main protagonist is Harry August who keeps repeating his life from birth to death over centuries. The descriptions of Harry's alternative lives were rather anecdotal and pointless and made the book far too long. Arguably this book could have lost 200 pages and it wouldn't have effected the narrative. The structure of Harry's storyline is rather flimsy and loose. The relationship between Harry and his frenemy Vincent is also rather odd and the suggestion of a homoerotic tension between the two was rather off the mark for me. I really didn't enjoy the reading experience of this book and found finishing this book a chore. I was rather relieved to finally see the back of this book. A disappointing 1.5/2 out of 5 stars.