In my short review, I said that this book seemed like it would be a very sinister story wrapped in a sad tale and to some extent I was right. It has a very sinister undertone and it really does make you question what you would do had you been in that situation. An unusual moral ambiguity comes over you as you read this book and you can't help being pulled along in the story.
It, on the whole, was a very good study of the journey of family woes and takes a microscope to the process of death among loved ones, really examining the fragility of the lives we lead with our loved ones and how much we take them for granted.
Despite the sinister undertones at the 'body-swap', the book goes on to give you a beautiful, fresh view of a world we all stopped really noticing a long time ago, with a beautiful, heart lightening end to boot.
It isn't all perfect though and some of Lily's speech in the book I do find hard to read because at certain junctures she just seems so...spiteful but all of this really comes back to add to the darkness hidden within the book.
As a small side note, the last chapter in the book, the 'many years later' bit should really be an epilogue rather than just another chapter. An epilogue would prepare you for the jump in time in the story rather than to expect a continuation of the same.
It, on the whole, was a very good study of the journey of family woes and takes a microscope to the process of death among loved ones, really examining the fragility of the lives we lead with our loved ones and how much we take them for granted.
Despite the sinister undertones at the 'body-swap', the book goes on to give you a beautiful, fresh view of a world we all stopped really noticing a long time ago, with a beautiful, heart lightening end to boot.
It isn't all perfect though and some of Lily's speech in the book I do find hard to read because at certain junctures she just seems so...spiteful but all of this really comes back to add to the darkness hidden within the book.
As a small side note, the last chapter in the book, the 'many years later' bit should really be an epilogue rather than just another chapter. An epilogue would prepare you for the jump in time in the story rather than to expect a continuation of the same.