SuitabookAnimus
Tiffany FitzHenry
- Reading
- Expect speculative concepts and a prominent romantic dilemma, while allowing room to question the story’s rules about souls and fate.
- Themes
- Identity and accumulated lives: Eve is unknowingly described as having the oldest soul on Earth, while scientists work towards identifying how many lifetimes souls have lived. The premise invites questions about whether a person is defined by present life or supposed previous lives, but the book’s judgement is not clear.
- Love, fate and choice: Eve is fatefully drawn to Jude, a new soul, and Roman, her apparent love of lifetimes, and must choose between them. The relationship dilemma is central, but it is not clear whether the book endorses destiny, freedom, or one particular relationship.
- Science and social conflict: Genome mapping may enable souls to be classified by their number of lifetimes, potentially dividing old souls from new souls and leading to world war. The premise raises concerns about classification and group conflict, without showing whether the book critiques, supports or complicates that division.
- Worth knowing
- Talk about how scientific attempts to measure something as personal as a soul might affect identity, freedom and relationships. Ask whether the story treats destiny as fixed or open to challenge; its resolution is unclear.