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Book Review of Replay

Replay
Bonnie avatar reviewed on + 422 more book reviews


A time travel, or is it? Not like any I've ever read. Jeff doesn't just whiz through time and back, he has to die first. No, he isn't then re-incarnated, he comes back as his original self, over and over again. While his death date and time remain constant, the time of his coming back changes and he finds himself in his body at different stages in his lives.
How much do you dare change? That is always a question. And of course, the Kennedy killing is visited with strange results. How much do you tell others, your family and friends? Are there others out their like him, a "replayer?" Which wife do you look for, which do you avoid? How much money do you allow yourself to make without arousing the government. And speaking of the government, there is the life where he decides it is time to try to save humanity and he goes public with devastating results.
I give this 4.5 stars, only because the very ending dragged a bit for me. But there many 5 star ratings out there, more than I've ever seen today for a book written in 1986. Highly recommended.