jacoblucasbeckey

TURNABOUT is a tough one for me to rate.. this book fell victim to bad timing for me. I started reading it just as my life got hectic (planning my twin boys 4th birthday party) and although I found the idea of un-ageing intriguing, the story it's self wasn't interesting enough to hold my attention over all the other craziness in my own life. Evidence shown in that it took me like a week to get through such a short book, that I would normally breeze through in one sitting before bed. Anyhow to be fair to the author, this was a good read, not an exciting, fantastic, edge of your seat read, but a good comfortable easy read. Basically its about group of nursing home patients in Kentucky, that at the end of their life are given a trial drug that will reverse the aging process.. essentially they will stop ageing and start growing younger. The story follows two of the patients through their second life as they "un-age" into the year 2085. TURNABOUT is a cool idea and a good book, but for me, Haddix missed out on the potential for a fantastic read. I wish the story had gone further into the actual second lives of the two main characters, instead of just hinting at bits and pieces.

2022-09-02 12:05