Amanda 👵🏻📚 ( @eastofreaden )

It's time for another mediocre review 🤗
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Imagine if you will, just for a moment, that you have a young child. And this young child start demanding their “real”/”other” parents. They would talk of doing things and things happening around them that you know for certain aren’t true. Wouldn’t you want to know exactly what is going on?
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That’s why I read this book. I was intrigued. A book about reincarnation? Fucking sign me up! I think the idea of reincarnation is fascinating. Maybe it’s because death is my greatest fear, the idea of finality and nothing ever happening again is terrifying – but then there is this soft idea of there maybe being a small possibility that there could be a tiny chance you might come back. Maybe.
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Janey is a single mother to four-year-old Noah. Absolutely terrified of water, refuses to be bathed, talks about summers spent at a lake house that Janey has never seen in her life, and screams for his real mom. Enter Jerome, a psychology professor turned reincarnation-enthusiast/researcher/expert, who comes into Janey’s life and guides her in the direction she needs to discover the truth.
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Great idea, but this book was poorly executed. There was so much potential, but the book was so boring. I felt no connection whatsoever to any of the characters. I didn’t care about anything they were going through. I also grew incredibly tired of how Noah was written. Okay, sure, he’s a reincarnated 9-year-old but there were some lines where I thought even a child that age wouldn’t be saying it.
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Lazy writing, unimaginative story about a fascinating topic (how does that even happen?), and a very lackluster “mystery”. This is basically the equivalent of Nicolas Sparks writing a Lifetime movie. I just can't.
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