An Exaltation of Larks – Robert Reed

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Jesse Aylesworth’s life is perfect: he’s extremely popular with the girls, getting fabulous grades, and is even the editor of the student newspaper. But then it all changes when he meets a talking turtle who’s really a shapeshifting Indian claiming to be a time traveler from the end of time.

 

Turtle – as the Indian calls himself – tells Jesse that he’s been chosen to be a part of a select group of people who will be instrumental in recreating the universe by rewriting its physical laws: in exchange for immortality, Jesse will participate in this plan from the end of time that will result in all people receiving eternal life.

 

The plot becomes even more complicated once Jesse begins to suspect that an additional time traveler may be attempting to undermine Turtle’s plan – and this time traveler is posing as his girlfriend.

 

Sounds weird? I’m actually not sure that I’m conveying just how weird the book is. I’m not sure how to put it, but there was something very.. what’s the word I’m looking for – spiritual? intimate? – about this book. Something I haven’t seen in many books. I loved it.

 

In summary: Give this book a shot if my review has you intrigued. If it sounds just too weird, you probably won’t like it.

 


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