THE BOOKS

Mirror's Edge

The Last Leap?

It's 1999 - Five years after the Leap that starteeed it all.

It's 1999 - For Sam Beckett who has Leaped into JJJoe Powell, one of the richest men in America, a potential presidential candidate, and a man who is used to getting his way.

It's 1999 - For Al Calavicci, for Donna Alessi-Beeeckett, for all the people at Project Quantum Leap who know that Sam is in their present, home but yet not home.

But the holes in Sam's Swiss cheese memory are starting to fill, the man in the Waiting Room is strangely, disturbingly calm, and Ziggy is dispensing information that can hardly be believed.

Something is about to happen. Something that will change Sam's life and the lives of those who love him - forever.

My Two Cents...(big spoilers for the book)

When I got to the last chapter...the screams started :) I just felt so cheated. Call me an optimistic fool but I really thought that this book will offer us a better ending to Sam's story, and I was sure in my heart and mind when I read this book that Sam will be coming home in the end, even if only for a little while. But instead, they gave us this ending. Okay, so I have to admit that it's kinda genius ending, the way that they connect it to the episode, and the fact that until the last moment, you have no idea that this is what's about to happen...but still. I still feel cheated about this and probably will feel like that always.

About the characters in this novel. I've read all the books of QL...have been the flame that kept my QL love alive for the last 7 years...and some of the writers took free writing when it came to the characters and who was in the project's "lead" people. This novel really disappointed me when it comes to that. Although I really like the fact that they got Tom into the all deal (when did he become such a pain in the... ?) I missed Sam's kid (Sammy Jo). I think that it could have been another "big" emotional thing for Sam to remember that he has a kid. But he didn't even remember that when he remembered his past leaps. Wasn't that important enough??? And where did they got that David guy from ? (what did happen to him in the end any way?). And where's Tina?

One last thing and I promise to get out of your hair...When Kevin was shot, the people in the project didn't know about that (Tom and the rest), they said that in the original history there wasn't a shooting...but how come they can remember that? Al and Ziggy are the only ones that should remember the "old" histories.

It was emotionaly tiring to read this book, mainly because it's too long and the secondary plots wern't that interesting; I kept on wanting to just skip them and go back to Sam and Al.

All in all...not the book that I would have chosen to finish the wonderful series of Quantum Leap novels.

--osnat