Title: Disturbed themes, Bad story-telling
Product review: Mexico hundreds of years from now: people regressing to past lives through music, communicating with plants by amazing new technology, and uniting with their twin souls through ethereal lovemaking. Sounds fascinating, but this book ultimately lived up to none of my expectations. The characters are ultra-flat, the plot is silly and stilted, and the recurring themes would be laughable if they weren't so disturbing: The quality of one's life is utterly out of one's control, since it is determined part and parcel by what we've done in our past lives? Rape is a crime of passion and misunderstanding, rather than of violence? People can only learn through direct experience, not ever through reason or imagination? Yikes!
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