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I have just read this book and your 'overwhelming sense of exhaustion' clearly defines what the book is about. That she would have to continue killing Hitler every life... so the book is not a traditional linear story with a beginning and end. It is therefore fitting that the ending is open.
Thanks. This review helped me understand the book. I did have a sense of exhaustion too but couldn't put my finger on it. Nice to live again (and again) and have more chances, but then at the same time each new life sort of wipes out the old, unless the new person is the sum of all the previous persons, which is potentially the author's point. I enjoyed the sort of British sound and humor of the book, definitely a major achievement to keep track of different characters over a complicated timeline, but ultimately didn't have a ton of soul in it as it progressed.
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I have just read this book and your 'overwhelming sense of exhaustion' clearly defines what the book is about. That she would have to continue killing Hitler every life... so the book is not a traditional linear story with a beginning and end. It is therefore fitting that the ending is open.
Thanks. This review helped me understand the book. I did have a sense of exhaustion too but couldn't put my finger on it. Nice to live again (and again) and have more chances, but then at the same time each new life sort of wipes out the old, unless the new person is the sum of all the previous persons, which is potentially the author's point. I enjoyed the sort of British sound and humor of the book, definitely a major achievement to keep track of different characters over a complicated timeline, but ultimately didn't have a ton of soul in it as it progressed.
