It is a delightful read, and casts the mold for the furtherance of a genre that has much appeal. There is room in the science fiction mold for fresh and new ideas. Soma Vira is my favorite science fiction author. Someone from Hollywood should take notice of her Angel Trails series for her wonderful stories and creativity. With most books the reader jumps into the shallow end of the pool.
Some books cannonball the reader into the deep end.
This was a cliff dive into largely unknown territory filled with past lives, fate, reincarnation, and karmic destiny. Texas The spirit world lives in these pages, wound up in intercourse with far-flung technology, the resulting brew capturing the best of both worlds, or perhaps more correctly, swimming in the sea between. The story transports the reader to a world where spirits have a sense of humor and even human existence seems illusory and questions abound as to the scope of technology's impact in human lives. The eminent German sociologist Max Weber made many interesting observations on the implications of the advent of modern life. To Weber the most interesting of these was the effect of increasingly bureaucratic ways of life on modern persons.