Synopsis: Imagine you die at age 43 only to awake in your college dorm room at 18 years old and getting to live your entire life over again. Change any mistakes you may have made, right any wrongs, maybe bet on a horse race where you already know the winner. Take your knowledge of the winning sports teams, profitable stocks, successful upcoming companies to increase your income into the hundreds of millions. Become one of the most successful businessmen of all time only to die again of a heart attack at age 43. Replay life, yet again. This is exactly how Jeff Winston has lived his life, except it doesn't end there, his keeps replaying his life over and over and over again and always dying at age 43. In each of his lives he meets previous girlfriends, wives and even another replayer. In one life he shares his secret with the world only to have the world turn on him, thinking he is a psychic and not believing the fact that he actually already lived through these events. The government demanding to know the future and not willing to help him figure out why this is happening to him. Throughout each of his lives he struggles to find balance between the woman he loves and the woman he may be with when we wakes up. How will all these lives end? What will happen when his replays run out? Is it really aliens altering the space time continuum for their own entertainment? One day will the replays stop? Will he be able to live his life in peace with Linda, Judy, Pamela? Or will he keep replaying again and again and again...
My review: I have never read another book quite like this in my life. It was fantastic. Such an amazing concept, such a unique story. Seeing Jeff struggle to make sense of this life and the next life and the previous life, always longing to see where the story is going to take him next, it's pure entertainment. Wow, is all I can say, what a page turner. I literally shut myself off in the basement so I would have time to myself to make sure I could read this book without anyone bothering me. The story is quite similar to the movie Groundhog Day, except Jeff can alter so much more with his knowledge over years and years then Bill Murray's character can do in a day. Each one of his lives are so different and so amazing that I was drawn into this book from the very first sentence. The author has already passed away so there will be no sequel written but I will definitely being checking out some of his other books. Until then you need to read this book today.
My rating: 9
Pages: 312
Author website (unofficial): http://www.kengrimwoodlibrary.com/
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