My Never Ending List

Time has moved on without you, and when you walk out into the sunlight, your world has changed. Not enough that we’re living in spaceships and other galaxies but just enough that the world that you left is no longer within your grasps.   There are two choices, well actually three but the third choices just seems so morbid and when you think about it, what was the point if you choose that direction. So you reflect, do you accept the changes around you or do you try to get back what you once had, and then really, can you?

When Travis decides to undergo cryogenics, I could understand his desperation. Suffering from leukemia, Travis was just tired from fighting this disease and this gave him hope. I don’t really think he understood all the complications that it entailed and I don’t think the science behind it really knew all the implications either, it was new and exciting and wow, let’s just do it.  When his friends gave him, his best night of his life at the Saranson Center, the tears were streaming down my face and I was literally sobbing. So many more tears were shed throughout this book as were laugh-out-loud moments as the emotions and the actions of the characters tried to help Travis find his place in his new world.   Travis lost five years of his life, he was still in high school while all his friends had moved on into college and now Travis needed to find happiness. Travis wanted his old ties back with his friends but he needed to live in the present. Travis waits desperately for his old friends to call him as he watches his parents come to terms with his resurrection. Imagine having a new body but having your own head, I can’t even imagine the emotions and the thoughts that would be going through my own body. The author does a terrific job with all the confusion as we get inside the head of Travis as he tries to come to terms with his transformation. His old friend Kyle meets up with Travis and there are some awkward moments throughout the whole book as the two of them come to grips with this new arrangement. I always thought guys would be more laid-back with this type of situation but there was drama here. As he meets Hatton at school, his new friend starts to make Travis feel better. Travis feels he can win his old girlfriend Cate back and he sets his heart on doing so. As Travis pops up on stage to sing a solo performance of Tears for Fears, it’s a start. “I’m engaged.” The words are spoken, the words he knew, the words that had spiked his heart, and words that he hoped he could erase from reality but when they part for the night they still linger in the air. He wants Cate back but that’s only one of Travis’ issues since being resurrected after five years.