Langue : English
Publié 28 juin 2022 par HarperCollins Publishers.
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.
It seems like any other day. You wake up, get ready, and head out.
But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small box, holding the answer to the number of years you will live.
Suddenly, everyone on earth is faced with the same choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?
I teared up multiple times, even though a book about sealed fates has few surprises. It’s not the fates themselves that are touching, it’s their interconnectedness. Suspend your disbelief and don’t think too hard about the immutability of the strings. The real story is what everyone does with the lives their strings represent.
...but the book's based on one supernatural event and it does nothing with it. The event gets everyone thinking about death and fate, and the characters do have some growth, but then it doesn't say anything about them either. I felt it was just a missed opportunity.
Either dive deeper and don't rely on the supernatural as a story crutch, or use the supernatural to get us to think about how fate and death might be different than our current beliefs.
I suppose I got frustrated; sorry about the rant.
...but the book's based on one supernatural event and it does nothing with it. The event gets everyone thinking about death and fate, and the characters do have some growth, but then it doesn't say anything about them either. I felt it was just a missed opportunity.
Either dive deeper and don't rely on the supernatural as a story crutch, or use the supernatural to get us to think about how fate and death might be different than our current beliefs.
I suppose I got frustrated; sorry about the rant.
