The premise is that there are people who die and then come back, with all their memories intact for another life. It’s always the same life, born to the same parents, growing up in the same era in the same time of history. Harry August is such a person.

Of course, in his second life, he figures out that he is much smarter, since he knows the future and he tries to manipulate it. After a few lives he becomes a medical doctor. Imagine a 6-year-old child with the knowledge of a medical doctor. But changing history to your advantage does not always work out as expected.

There are many other people, all throughout history, who are like Harry. They form a club called the Chronos Club and they can communicate up and down the eras. A young child just born can give a message to an old person who is about to die. When that person is young again in his next life, 80 years earlier, as a child, he passes the message to another old person, and so on. They can pass messages to ancient Rome that way and beyond.

It’s an interesting premise, but I just never got into the story enough to care about what happens next, and how it all wraps up. I made it to Chapter 35 about 35% into the book when I finally gave up. I had lost interest and found myself reading only to get through the book.

The writer tells vignettes from different lives in different chapters, not necessarily in chronological order. This makes it difficult to keep track of what is actually going on, never mind that the story is distributed over the first fifteen lives. I am sure it may get more interesting, and I am sure there will be plot twists eventually, but I lost my will. There are other books to read.

As always, when I don’t finish reading a book I refrain from rating it.