At this point we started to feel confused and a little uncomfortable. This led onto whether we actually are doing the second option and we just don't know that we're living our life over and over, and also whether anyone else in the book was doing this or just the main protagonist.

We also wondered if making changes would make our lives any better, or any worse, or even affect those around us detrimentally. Secondly, if we accepted the gift would we want to be aware of living our lives over and over again or would we prefer to not know. We wondered whether if we were able to live our lives over and over again, firstly, would be accept that gift, or would we prefer to just do it the once. It seemed like a really interesting premise for a story. We had a short discussion about whether the protagonist was aware of the way she was living her lives, sometimes she seemed to know more than others that she had lived this particular bit of her life before. It was also found that some of the storylines that were started just suddenly stopped and weren't gone into with as much detail as we as readers would have wanted. However, the starting and stopping and the differences between the different lives can make it difficult to remember the story line. The writing style was very sparse, making very complex and disturbing elements seem very simple and almost beautiful. The reading style of this book is very easy, it seems to flow as you're reading it.

But there was one which appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the book that caught us all by surprise and seemed not to link in with the rest of the story. We felt that most of the different lives followed on logically, with each one getting her just that little bit further on in age. Once we got past this part of the story there were only a few starts and stops as she dies and then starts her life over again.

We found that the start of this book was very difficult to get into as it was, by necessity, very start stop as the main protagonist dies quite regularly.

Life after life book discussion