Court reviewed Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
Review of 'Reincarnation blues' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Didn't finish.
2 stars for an interesting premise and a strong first few pages. Things I didn't like:
- racial slur
- false accusation of rape as a plot device (shit like this makes it harder for survivors to step forward)
- lots of actual rape as a plot device with no exploration of the emotional consequences
- the "giving away" of one's wife as though she has no interests of her own
- each life story goes on a bit too long and there are too many, many overlap
- didn't like the characters
- why am I reading a book about Milo & Suzi's relationship when they are already together & just screwing all the time?
- the women don't get to do much. Very few (maybe one? Poc)
- basically the further I got the more apparent it became that this was written by a straight cis white dude who was going to portray the world that way
- unanswered questions: why not stay in the afterlife forever? How much do they remember (Milo hears voices but)? How does the afterlife actually differ from "real" life if there's houses and candle shops and burritos? If ppl get reincarnated as different genders and races then do they have a "true" gender/race? How are there white men and men of other ethnicities in the afterlife? I wanted more of these details and less of the same post-apocalyptic sci-fi hellscapes (and I don't take issue with sci-fi)