The History Major by Michael Phillip CashMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
When Amanda Greene awakens something is not quite right. She hazily remembers a night of alcohol and partying, and a big fight with her boyfriend. Her dorm room is familiar but there is a girl claiming to be her roommate that she doesn't recognize. Come class time she checks her schedule and finds herself scheduled for a class in history of all things. Amanda hates history and knows she wasn't going planning to take it this semester. Things get weirder, the class is in a building she didn't even know existed on campus. And the professor is dressed as Plato or Aristotle or Hippocrates or one of those other boring old Greek guys. Before she knows it Amanda is immersed in a series of visions relating to historical figures. Will she learn what they have to teach her? Or is she just having the worst hangover in history?
Since the book is only a novella the author had less space for character development, back story and gently leading his protagonist (and reader) in the desired direction. It made the morality lesson heavy handed in spots. I enjoyed the ending because it was what I expected.
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