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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can't really explain why this book didn't work for me -- Chernobyl and time travel seemed like a potent combination -- but somehow it didn't. Too pat, maybe, and I didn't love the way it was written.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Expansive and emotional speculative historical fiction.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
Yeah, I DNF.
I love time travel, and this should have been right up my street, but everything just felt so . . . forced. Constantly taken out of the story by the total lack of subtlety or nuance as well as by the transparent marketing strategy used to sell it.
ed. to add: It felt like I was consuming a product rather than being absorbed by a story.
Just made me want to re-read A Wrinkle in Time.
I love time travel, and this should have been right up my street, but everything just felt so . . . forced. Constantly taken out of the story by the total lack of subtlety or nuance as well as by the transparent marketing strategy used to sell it.
ed. to add: It felt like I was consuming a product rather than being absorbed by a story.
Just made me want to re-read A Wrinkle in Time.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Listened to audiobook and read print. Slow to start for me but once the characters were developed, the book gelled wonderfully. Enjoyed it.
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
You might be able to change the past, but can you fix it?
That is the key question swirling at the center of this intergenerational time travel story, and what a weighty question it is. I'm usually pretty reluctant to read time travel stories and for some reason completely missed that element the first couple times I read the summary. This book surprised me though! While it is a time travel story it's much more a story about generational cycles, trauma, the special kind of betrayal passed from mother to daughter, mother to daughter. This story is alive with the pasts presents and futures of the women at its heart, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.