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All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

9 reviews

sgoldstine's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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dalek_caan's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was a wild ride. Overall I enjoyed it, and the time travel aspects were entertaining. I was definitely thinking this book would be a lot lighter than it was, but was pleased and surprised by the direction it ended up going. 
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mnmlrvws's review against another edition

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 Terrible book. Gross characters and written like a clickbait article, never getting to the point and the main character is abusive and a POS (not in a fun way).
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karenmsecrest's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Not the book for me. 

I was distracted by:
  • Super short chapters (1.5 - 5 pages)
  • First person narration
  • The narrator was super whiney

Readers might like it for:
  • Time travel
  • Utopian parallel world
  • Plot focused story

Reminded me of a YA book because of the fast-moving forward motion of the plot. However, the non-consensual sexual content is not for the YA audience.
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brianareads's review against another edition

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dark reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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magneticmemory's review against another edition

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2.5

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kari_f's review against another edition

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3.0

“I’m sorry this isn’t a time-travel romp. I was expecting causal loops and reality fluctuations and branching dimensions and scientifically questionable solutions to ornate space-time paradoxes. I wasn’t expecting actual human pain. I didn’t ask to question the foundations of my sanity.”

I’ll be honest that I’m conflicted on this book! I thought the plot was really fun and interesting, but I didn’t find the main character even remotely likable for the first 2/3, so my feelings are all over the place about the book as a whole.

Things I enjoyed:

✨ There are some very intriguing ideas brought up in the book, including the pitfalls of manipulating time, dreams as glimpses into alternate realities, and space being an important aspect of time travel.

✨ The side characters were interesting, and I really enjoyed seeing the difference between the protagonist’s world and our world. I especially enjoyed the family dynamics.

✨ The sci-fi elements were mixed with a lot of complicated human emotions and relationships.


Things I didn’t love:

✨ The protagonist is petty, selfish, and kind of an ass. I didn’t like him for most of the book, and this impacted my enjoyment of the book quite a bit. He’s one of those people who knows he’s often a self-centered jerk with low self esteem, but he doesn’t put any work into making himself a better person. Instead, he wallows in self-pity. This is one of my biggest pet peeves in people, so this character rubbed me the wrong way.

✨ Some of the elements in the book felt like overused rom com tropes, with the nerdy but attractive bookshop owner and the man who couldn’t hold a steady relationship suddenly becoming a better man for knowing her.


Check the trigger warnings for this one, as there is SA and suicide.
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lost_reader's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

2.0

I love to hate this book. It has fascinating sci fi concepts and ideas but I did not like the execution. Came off as... too dramatic? Perhaps full of itself? Some of the plot twists were so sudden they made me laugh. The main character is annoying. There's something about this book that comes off as insulting to my intelligence. I'm sorry if this is harsh, it's just really not for me. It's memorable and I keep thinking about it, so I guess it did something right. I don't know what that says about me.
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alomie's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I liked the short chapters so it was easy enough and felt fast paced, but it was just so god damned repetitive.
I don't want to spoil it, but christ on a bike the pulp science was a lot, and it wasn't very well explained even though it was explained at length this book said a lot but ultimately it was quite empty of actual substance.
I would have really liked this book if it was about 150 pages shorter, I definitely felt myself skimming towards the end.
I just couldn't get behind the main character I found him self indulgent and the rest of the cast felt paper thin stereotypes.
I was hoping for a fun time travel romp, instead I got a time travel moaner.
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