Sci-fi? Or not so Sci-fi?
"On the way home from a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. When she wakes up she is in what appears to be a hospital – but a hospital in which her nurse looks like a young Sean Connery, she is served wine for supper, and everyone avoids her questions. It soon transpires that she is in Heaven, or on HVN, because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captain. She seems to be there by accident… or does God have a higher purpose after all? Despite that, The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is neither sci-fi nor fantasy. It is a book about memory and how, if we could remember things slightly differently, would we also be changed? In HVN, Lorna can at first remember nothing. But as her memories return – some good, some bad – she realises that she has decisions to make and that, maybe, she can find a way back home." This book was a little hard for me to follow but not impossible. All of the spaceship jargon made it a little difficult for the layman but I digress. The underlying story was very interesting and indeed original in some respects. It was well-paced and well-written and the characters were believable and relatable. This book is funny because the cover art and the setting make it out to be a science fiction novel but the story seems to be anything but. it's very strange and compelling the way the author weaved both of those elements together. I mean parts of it would even make you think that this isn't a very serious novel to begin with. It's almost a comedy and some respect. of course that could be just me and my twisted sense of humor LOL. 😜 I did enjoy reading this book however like I said all of the science fiction spaceship jargon really took away from the storyline for me. I did like Lorna however. I thought she was a very easygoing and sympathetic character. I understand that the author is going to be making this book into a series and I would be interested to find out more about that if it is so. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good Sci-Fi novel or a strong female lead character.
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