Title: Any Given Lifetime
Author: Leta Blake
Publisher: Leta Blake Books
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Reincarnation
Page Count: 215
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
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If reincarnation is a favorite theme of yours, you'll really enjoy "Any Given Lifetime" and even if it really isn't your thing, you'll love this book for its depiction of a love that truly lasts a lifetime, and beyond.
When Joshua and Neil fall in love for the first time, Joshua is "a skittish country boy stewing in internalized homophobia, and Neil [...] a very busy research scientist." They are only together a short time before Neil dies, leaving Joshua with his family fortune which Joshua uses to create the Neil Russell Foundation for Advanced Nanite Research.
Neil is reborn as Alice Quinley's child Neil Joseph and compared to his first life in a relative lap of luxury, this life is a hard scrabble one, with little money and an abusive father who leaves when Neil is eight. Alice fiercely loves this strange child, whose first words were "I miss Joshua" and who acts like an old man in a skinny little body. "He’d always been a child who seemed to find everyday miracles not only to be old hat, but really kind of annoying."