by Michael Poore
Everyone gets 10,000 tries to live a perfect life or they face oblivion and Milo is closing in on 10,000. I had no expectations for this book when I picked it up. It was facing outward on a shelf and the neon lettering on the black background caught my attention, I read the back cover and thought, sure, why not.
I then spent the next few hours glued to my couch. Every time Milo dies, he can be reborn at any point in history - past present, or future - which allows Reincarnation Blues to shift genres every few chapters. At times it's historical fiction, at others its contemporary realism and there is even some science fiction thrown in there as well. To some, this may feel like the novel is disjointed, but Poore's comedy-of-errors story, fantastic wit and humor, combined with some of the funniest one-liners, make this one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.