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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
This book is a good, spine tingling page turner. It adds a 'scientific' (i.e. plausible technobabble) element to one of the possible understandings of time travel into the past, and has characters that I identified with more than those in Spin.
Amazing concept!
Bad execution! The central sci fi mystery of the story is played out in scenes mostly not included in this book. Instead, the viewpoint character is a divorced dad who has to win his estranged kid's trust, and the narration is all about him and how sad it is to be divorced. And, that's fair, but,
Come on! Don't pitch me this book about GIANT TIME OBELISKS and then not have it be about the giant time obelisks
Bad execution! The central sci fi mystery of the story is played out in scenes mostly not included in this book. Instead, the viewpoint character is a divorced dad who has to win his estranged kid's trust, and the narration is all about him and how sad it is to be divorced. And, that's fair, but,
Come on! Don't pitch me this book about GIANT TIME OBELISKS and then not have it be about the giant time obelisks
Interesting, with neat ideas about time and space. I will say, there is one downside to writing books set in the not-so-distant future, and that is that they don’t always age well. Many of the events of this book are set *now* and Wilson’s envisioned future is not at all like ours in many ways. Still, it’s easy to forget the dates and enjoy the story.
I wanted this to be so much better, and I liked the premise a lot, but...ugh. Not my jam.
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Like Wilson’s other books, this is an intensely humane story of people caught in the midst of strange circumstances. The characters’ specific situations couldn’t exist without the mysterious monuments from the future that change the world and their individual lives. But the griefs, joys, loves, fears, and hopes they feel are the same as ours and Wilson makes it easy for readers to care as much about them as he does. This is a heartbreaking yet deeply satisfying story, and I’m very glad to have read it.
Generic fiction about a man trying to be emotionally detached and above the common people when dealing with shitty stuff.
Este libro tiene como premisa uno de los Conceptos mas interesantes y originales que me he encontrado: Un futuro conquistador envía al pasado monumentos conmemorativos de sus grandes victorias. La vida del protagonista se ve afectado por las consecuencias políticas y sociales de la aparición de los cronolitos. El desarrollo de la idea es tambien impecable, los monumentos celebrando victorias de Kuin para las que faltan casi 20 años van extendiendo por Asia y África provocando una crisis económica, política y social de alcance mundial que afecta la vida de las personas. La ominosa extensión de los cronolitos que van cercando cada vez más al mundo occidental crea una tensión argumental que atrapa al lector. Por desgracia el conquistador resulta ser un McGuffin y el libro se resuelve de forma acertada pero pobre para las expectativas que ha ido generando.
pretty good
The premise was intriguing and his focus on the humans involved rather than the technology was wonderful. I felt the end let it down a little, a few things not fully explained or realised. Regardless a novel worth reading.
The premise was intriguing and his focus on the humans involved rather than the technology was wonderful. I felt the end let it down a little, a few things not fully explained or realised. Regardless a novel worth reading.