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What sets this novel aside from other novels that share the same genre is that it relies on characters discussing the travels of time jumpers rather than showing those jumps in action.
As a reader, I would tell myself, ‘Just one more chapter’ and then Cooper would go and make the characters do something crazy or dangerous, or put them in situations that surely, they won’t get out of.
In Memory of My Sister, by Kimberly Syres, is a memorialized account of a courageous mother’s battle against multiple cancers told from the viewpoint of her older sister.
Told over three parts, the book is divided into six chapters. Part One can be summed up as pain. It provides the background of falling pregnant, discovering the tumors, and the negligence that almost caused unnecessary death.
The blurb promises stories that deal with the tough themes of loss, alienation, aging, and contemporary life with all its peculiarities.
The title gives the impression that the reader will be faced with something akin to Alan Bennett in the wee hours.
Lot’s of politics, not so much death, and hardly deceit when it’s all out in the open. A book of several stories that need better connection.
As I started turning the pages, what I actually got was recollections of The Goonies and Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Dickens. I knew within a few pages that I was going to enjoy the adventure ahead.
