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282 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2015
Ever since I've read the first few pages, I really wanted to like this book, it simply felt close to myself - a Romanian (and I'm a neighbour from Bulgaria!) living in Germany. I could totally get the main heroine's thoughts on the topic. Then I discovered she was vegan... Not that I mind, but I dislike them, so my always-positive-attitude decided that this is going to be the perfect timing for me to change my mind. It didn't happen. I still got that I'm-better-than-you-'cuz-I'm-a-vegan thing. Sorry. And since then the entire heroine wasn't to my liking, she felt... fake. I couldn't believe in anything I read about her: in the entire book Ariana reminded the readers how much she loved to read but it's never even mention a book title. She's busier than everyone else, works perfectly well under stress (really? no need to meditate in the park, or do yoga in the morning?), she has nightmares and every other night but her face still looks young due to regular hydration, she's always talking about reading a lot on the subject of astral stuff but in the end her knowledge is not so big than mine. She was whining a lot, too, as if to draw attention to her problems because she did it a lot during other people's happy moments. The conversations she had with her fiancé were either dripping with sweetness or snorts, I just couldn't get it. Okay, enough whining about the heroine :)
The subject the author is approaching is quite challenging and she did a really good job. I wish her book had met an editor who could have put some explanations at the end of the book about the terms she was using because for a profane like myself, this was the hard part, getting all the explanations right. And I really wanted to get them right! I liked how we're programmed to fail, how the entire universe, life is explained as from engineers, really cool. There are two scenes from this book that will remind in my mind for a very long time, and I'm looking forward to the heroine's new path on Ascension. I hope the second book won't be distracted from so many unimportant events (Meike's birthday party, Ariana's cousin visiting, etc) and that we'll get some answers (). Yeah, I know - my mistake, I shouldn't be looking for everything to be in place. SPOILER ALERT HERE!!!