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roba's review against another edition
5.0
Crafty and crafted time travel novel... Time travel is an easy thing to mess up in SF, and this does well by leaving the mechanics and details largely off-page, instead generating a subtle feeling of uneasiness and spookiness, and exploring memory and grief. Great sense of place and set dressing, too - I'm generally quite happy with your book if you describe a bunch of stuff on a table. And then if you describe a table as well! Brilliant.
steelglassivory's review against another edition
5.0
Very little is explained and the reader is left to guess most of it for herself. I liked how the same names were used across several different stories, leading to litre moments where you remember a piece of trivia that was mentioned before about a character, but you’re not quite sure if it’s this character or another version from a separate short story in the book with the same name. This seems to mimic the mild state of confusion that Owen Andrews spoke of when crossing between realities.
The ending is left ambiguous (like most of the book is) and I kind of wish there was an explanation out there for how the different timelines criss cross and intersect and how the Dora Newland in the last story is related to Owen Andrews and the significance of Helen Bostall.
The ending is left ambiguous (like most of the book is) and I kind of wish there was an explanation out there for how the different timelines criss cross and intersect and how the Dora Newland in the last story is related to Owen Andrews and the significance of Helen Bostall.
tundragirl's review against another edition
2.0
I must be missing something because what I just read was a bunch of loosely related short stories, mostly with the same cast of characters, except in each story they're related to each other in different ways, and sometimes people travel in time if they come in contact with a little person, or maybe a clock or a watch he made, and then each story sort of fizzles out. Not for me.
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