This is an unbelievably compassionate book and such a talented piece of work that I can't even describe why. It creates such a mental image in your head with all these interconnected events and time periods that I felt desperate to seek "what ifs" throughout. It will dive deep into your heart with the centuries of families affected, a lot of death, but yet a lot of love.

As we are experiencing the 2nd wave of this pandemic, this book clicked with so many correlations. The story begins in 2030, after a plague is unleashed into the world while uncovering a virus infected girl frozen in an ancient burial ground. How clever we are to dive into every virus that ever lived on this earth either by burial or human waste and not think we will refester it.😳

The day to day living through a pandemic is stamped throughout the book with our dilemmas and inconveniences, but yet it doesn't overwhelm you... it needed to drive it home...I mean really drive it home that we could be living with it for centuries. Why are some families affected and some unscathed was the bigger question and how will generations resume after it.

While listening to the audio, you hear the desperate plea of a mother to keep her terminally ill son comfortable, the End of Life Theme Park where people take their loved ones to an Euthanasia rollercoaster, Galactic homes to carry the survivors to start a new life, VR Cafes, Elegy Hotels to bid final farewells and avatars to recreate our loved ones to converse with.

Please read the other descriptions of this book before you pass it by for another Covid rendition...it is so much more than that. *Alexis, Wow!!! Your review!!!"
Thank you NetGalley and Harper Audio for this unbelievable ARC in exchange for my review.