I grabbed this book because of the cover and the title. We have chickens and they are so incredibly entertaining. Therefore I must read a book with a chicken on the cover called, improbably, The Reincarnation Of Tom.

And I loved it. Jaded with my usual genres and needing some levity in these days of Coronavirus this was perfect. It was funny, wry and pithy and a lot of fun.. Tom is an uninspiring young man in an uninspiring job who secretly pines after Lily but is too shy to ask her out. One day Tom is hit by a bus. As he lays dying, thinking he has nothing to lose, he uses a chant he has just been given that enables him to be reincarnated and remember previous lives. Then he wakes up as a...

Chicken! And so it goes. Ant, salmon, tiger, a few goes at being a human and so on but he always seems to mess up and other people end up being hurt. And he always, well almost always, get killed by the same people who have a vendetta against him. Can Tom learn anything and find happiness as he journeys through bodies, time and space? Enjoy the journey.

I got this book from NetGalley. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for making this available for review.

The main reason I got interested on this book is the word "Reincarnation' on its title. The cover is weird with that chicken. This is the story of Tom and his many lives as different entities.

I'm very much interested with books that has reincarnation as theme. It started as a very interesting read for me and it was really funny reading the different lives of Tom. But then the novelty wears off as Tom experiences a life being hunted with every reincarnation.

The villain (on my eyes) Sal has his own difficulties but I just felt like he's projecting all his misfortunes to Tom. Some scenes were in my opinion unnecessary and could have been trimmed. I just hoped Tom was more confident and not so impulsive.

All in all, it was an okay read.