Review: Gets in Your Head
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
Reversion has several important qualities that make it an excellent read. What I enjoyed most was the deeply psychological narrative of Samuel, a man who discovers himself in an unknown forest and struggles to regain his memory. The way he learns about his new environment, essentially from scratch, tells us as much about him as it does his world, which slowly expands into a giant question mark grappling with the nature of reality and the instinctual struggle for survival. I will say that I enjoyed the wolves and wished they'd been a bigger part of the story, and I think some of the secondary characters would've benefited from something a little flashier, but those are minor quibbles compared to a thought-provoking story with a satisfying resolution.Why should you read this book? Reversion certainly isn't a mainstream read, but it gets at something essential about the trials of the human condition. Like Samuel's attempts to venture out into an unfamiliar world, we should all summon the courage to be so bold and get a little adventurous with our reading. This is a good place to start.