The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Executive Summary: This is another one of those books where I seem to be in the minority of my friends. The premise sounded excellent, but I struggled with the first half. It finished stronger than it started, saving it from a 2 star rating, albeit barely: 2.5 stars.

Full Review
The book was well written. The concept of reliving your life over and over again with all of your memories was fantastic. However the execution of the story just left me unengaged.

I'm not sure what I expected this book to be exactly, but it definitely had a different tone than I was looking for. It's starts off on such a bleak note for me that I think it instantly put me off it completely.

I'm stubborn though so I pushed through for awhile until I got to 40% mark and then I just ignored it for about a month. Instead of moving on to another book, I just didn't read at all. I finally decided to push through the final 60% over the long holiday weekend and I guess I'm glad I did.

I thought the ending was a lot better than the beginning. Maybe all that time away allowed me to reset and come in with proper expectations. I'm not really sure. Either way, I'm happy to be done with this book, and I probably won't pick up another by Claire North moving forward.