Khaled Talib

Summer of Love is a beautiful work of literature encapsulated within the science-fiction genre. It invites you on an emotionally jostling roller coaster ride. Lisa Mason is a prolific author who weaves a time-travel story that delves into many underlying themes at a micro and macro level during the famous "Summer of Love" pandemic in Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, in 1967. The author also descends underneath the epidermis of the street's kaleidoscopic and "groovy" ambiance to reveal what is and what is not through each character's eyes -- and whether or not we can rely on hope to wake us up the next morning. I felt the characters (even the secondary ones), the moments, the sights, the sounds and the smells of the time. As if I myself was time traveling. I found myself not only reading but tasting each word; sometimes going back to read a sentence, a paragraph or a page again. This is a novel I will not hesitate to recommend.