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Flight
In which the heroine dies in the first chapter and comes back as someone she can actually bear to be.
Serena is not the only person this has happened to, she soon discovers. In fact, nearly a dozen of them form an entire fraternity of such people. It seems apt, then, that they live in a fraternity house near her college campus, where death is expected and total transformation commonplace.
In this new life, Serena at last gets to experience being someone cool, daring, free. She and her new friends are all freed in some way from the bonds of their original lives. Serena was chubby and nerdy and embarrassing, friendless and boyfriendless and utterly uncool. Now she's thin and talented and sexy--and she has friends! Even boyfriends. And a special superpower that is only hers ....
Everything is at last perfect, but as they repeatedly die and get reborn as a whole new person, friends acquired and then lost, Serena knows she may lose all she gained, becoming someone else again someday. Then there's the terrible possibility she doesn't even let herself that she might even have to one day go back and face her original self.
Serena is not the only person this has happened to, she soon discovers. In fact, nearly a dozen of them form an entire fraternity of such people. It seems apt, then, that they live in a fraternity house near her college campus, where death is expected and total transformation commonplace.
In this new life, Serena at last gets to experience being someone cool, daring, free. She and her new friends are all freed in some way from the bonds of their original lives. Serena was chubby and nerdy and embarrassing, friendless and boyfriendless and utterly uncool. Now she's thin and talented and sexy--and she has friends! Even boyfriends. And a special superpower that is only hers ....
Everything is at last perfect, but as they repeatedly die and get reborn as a whole new person, friends acquired and then lost, Serena knows she may lose all she gained, becoming someone else again someday. Then there's the terrible possibility she doesn't even let herself that she might even have to one day go back and face her original self.
428 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2015
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November 13, 2015
Flight is one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read, and if every single person who can read English doesn’t read it, that’s a damn shame. Might seem like hyperbole, but really, there is no other book like this one. I just loved everything about it.
Flight has everything I adore about genre fiction, but doesn’t quite fit into any single genre. Are characters in college adults, young adults, or both? Is it fantasy? urban fantasy? magical realism? coming of age? It’s all of these, but allows none of them to define it.
This unique tale features a group of college students trying to find themselves—but for them, the journey of self-discovery is far more literal than expected: they keep dying and instantly being reincarnated into another body, another already existing life. They have homes, class schedules, families, even wallets with ID. The lives are pre-made, but the soul within remains the same.
The first-person narrator, Serena, soon discovers (after she dies for the first time, about two pages in) that there is an element of wish-fulfillment in these resurrections. She, and the multiply-reincarnated friends she soon makes, also learn to be careful what they wish for—even, in the case of one character, more wishes.
Without spoiling too much, I can only say that this book has everything. Excitement, danger, angst, romance, wisdom, beauty, truth, and a stunning originality that keeps you guessing, even when you think you have December Nolan’s sharp, entertaining narrative all figured out. You never quite do, and yet it answers all your questions, and more that you never thought to ask.
Before I read this book, I believed philosophy as a medium was more or less dead. It isn’t—but it has never been this entertaining or palatable. The nature of life and self-actualization, packaged with humor, plot twists, adventure and a ripping good story. I can’t imagine what more any reader could want. I wish I could read it again for the first time, every day.
Flight has everything I adore about genre fiction, but doesn’t quite fit into any single genre. Are characters in college adults, young adults, or both? Is it fantasy? urban fantasy? magical realism? coming of age? It’s all of these, but allows none of them to define it.
This unique tale features a group of college students trying to find themselves—but for them, the journey of self-discovery is far more literal than expected: they keep dying and instantly being reincarnated into another body, another already existing life. They have homes, class schedules, families, even wallets with ID. The lives are pre-made, but the soul within remains the same.
The first-person narrator, Serena, soon discovers (after she dies for the first time, about two pages in) that there is an element of wish-fulfillment in these resurrections. She, and the multiply-reincarnated friends she soon makes, also learn to be careful what they wish for—even, in the case of one character, more wishes.
Without spoiling too much, I can only say that this book has everything. Excitement, danger, angst, romance, wisdom, beauty, truth, and a stunning originality that keeps you guessing, even when you think you have December Nolan’s sharp, entertaining narrative all figured out. You never quite do, and yet it answers all your questions, and more that you never thought to ask.
Before I read this book, I believed philosophy as a medium was more or less dead. It isn’t—but it has never been this entertaining or palatable. The nature of life and self-actualization, packaged with humor, plot twists, adventure and a ripping good story. I can’t imagine what more any reader could want. I wish I could read it again for the first time, every day.
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