dnf @ 1% sometimes you read the first few pages of something and it Just Isn't For You. this is one of those and i have no desire to subject myself to 600ish pages of something that Just Isn't For Me.

I had a lot of trouble with this book. I took a great dislike to the protagonist halfway through the book. I really felt that he was, in some ways, stupid or thoughtless in the way he gave up his old life, and also in some of his actions as he relived his new changed life. It was hard to be on his side.

I can definitely relate to wishing I had done some things differently - but I would never go back to before I had my children, for this very reason - you would never get the same children again. However, having done so - he really needed to mourn and move on. They weren't suffering, they weren't hurting, and he had been given what he wanted. The fact that he threw away so much, even the second time around, was incomprehensible to me.

The other thing that made me a little crazy is that, instead of reading the book that he found, he decoded a location from a very small part of the text and then apparently never read the rest of it. He agreed to jump through a time window without learning enough about it.

Personally, I think he should have thrown the book away, gotten a divorce, and taken some life enrichment courses....
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Life II is a gripping Science Fiction novel, by Author Scott Spotson. Set mainly in Vancouver and Calgary, the story follows Max Thorning, a Forty-two year old man who is sick of feeling like second best to his wife and two kids.

After stumbling across an old book on the theory of time travel, Max decides to follow the clues to Athens, Greece. There, he meets a strange woman who claims to be an alien and goes by the name of Dr. Time. Max is offered the chance to travel back in time, as long as it is any point within his original time line. Deciding he has little to lose, Max jumps back to his sixteen year old body, where he starts his life again from that point. The novel sees Max go through many ups and downs as he struggles with the guilt that stems from his memories of Life I.

But, is there something that Dr. Time failed to mention?

Max's character began as a rational thinker. Along the path of Life II, we see him slowly disintegrate as the memories of Life I weigh in on his conscience. Supporting characters such as best friends Garfield, Nathan, and old flame Abby, continue to support him through this new life. Each character is unique in their own way, with their own sense of what their life means to them as an individual.

I was drawn into this surprising read by Max's emotional desires. I quickly connected with him as a character when I saw the emotional distress caused by his losses. I sympathised with his plight and can only imagine the kind of pain that his character goes through.

The plot was well thought out, with ideas that really spoke to me, scientifically. The cast of characters were loveable and for the most part, well rounded. I'm intrigued to see what Mr Spotson writes next. Easily 5 stars. A fantastic read. ( )

Couldn't even get through the first hundred pages 😣👎 ( )

What an intriguing story! I liked that Max thought he could prevent that killed a girl when he'd so drunk at sixteen when good sense told him to call a cab. With each time travel to 1974, forty-two year old Max Thorton, a financial investment salesperson, decided that twenty-six years was long enough to have his nightly nightmare, but each time he changed the past he had to return three times to his younger self to get it right and along the way he learned more about his family in the body of a sixteen year old and the eyes of a forty-year old. (less) ( )