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Cool Review of "Life II"!!
Many reviews - as many as three in one day - are pouring in for Life II. Here's a great one on Amazon:
""Life is not a test run"--so my elderly neighbour once said. But for the protagonist of this fun novel by Scott Spotson, life actually has been a test run. Life no. 2 isn't necessarily any easier than life no. 1, though.
On October 22, 2013 Max Thorning discovers an obscure, multilingual tome by one Medicus Tempus, mouldering amongst the haphazard shelves of a second-hand book store. "Medicus Tempus" translates to "Doctor Time" in Latin, and his book purports to explain the principles of time travel.
The meat of Medicus Tempus's book turns out to be hidden in a code. This leads Max to a house in downtown Athens, and he is soon well on his way to a time travel adventure. He gets to see dinosaurs in action, and discovers who really killed Julius Caesar; but he is finally dropped back into the body of his teenage self in 1987. It is at this point that the novel really begins, because it isn't about the science-fictional mechanics of time travel. Rather, Scott Spotson explores the interesting and poignant question of how people deal with crises and losses that seem (or are) inevitable."
""Life is not a test run"--so my elderly neighbour once said. But for the protagonist of this fun novel by Scott Spotson, life actually has been a test run. Life no. 2 isn't necessarily any easier than life no. 1, though.
On October 22, 2013 Max Thorning discovers an obscure, multilingual tome by one Medicus Tempus, mouldering amongst the haphazard shelves of a second-hand book store. "Medicus Tempus" translates to "Doctor Time" in Latin, and his book purports to explain the principles of time travel.
The meat of Medicus Tempus's book turns out to be hidden in a code. This leads Max to a house in downtown Athens, and he is soon well on his way to a time travel adventure. He gets to see dinosaurs in action, and discovers who really killed Julius Caesar; but he is finally dropped back into the body of his teenage self in 1987. It is at this point that the novel really begins, because it isn't about the science-fictional mechanics of time travel. Rather, Scott Spotson explores the interesting and poignant question of how people deal with crises and losses that seem (or are) inevitable."
