Fiction / SF/F
800 pages / 4910 KB
5 Stars
Warning: Do not begin if you don't have the time to invest
in reading this. Yes, it's long, but it's also a page burner. I found it very
difficult to put down until finished. I was hooked by the end of reading page
one.
I love the descriptions of the people, from the little girl
to the old codger whose war stories are never the same twice. And the
descriptions of the hospital corridors being randomly blocked off were
delightful. I used to work there, but it wasn't a hospital, it was a plane
manufacturer.
Joanna Lander is a psychologist studying Near Death
Experiences NDEs. She wants the scientific reason for having them. Mr. Mandrake
studies them to prove his theory of life after life, and he contaminates the
people he interviews by asking leading questions, so she must get to them
first. He's also a jerk. Dr. Richard Wright is also doing research on NDEs, and
enlists Joanna's help. In order to understand what the subjects go through
during an NDE, and to better understand what questions to ask, she becomes one
of the test subjects.
This is not your typical story of the Titanic, of life and
death, or of NDEs. The chapter epigraphs are marvelous. By the time I got to the end, I was more than
a little curious to see how Willis described the actual death. Though I wanted
something just a tad more concrete than she gave us, I think the description
was spot on. And, after all, it is a one-way trip.
A marvelous read, and for all its pages, a relatively quick
read.
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