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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

74 reviews

laurenhovde's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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There are times where I felt lost but overall a very strong book. There’s obviously lots of media surrounding time travel, but rarely one that takes a deep dive into what significance time travel may hold culturally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Murder

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

Minor: Vomit, Cannibalism

taryn_g's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Sexual content

darlingmermaiddarlings's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is so fascinating. It’s mostly brutal with a dash of hope. Some parts are extremely well-done, and others (like the “romance” which is more like obsession) feel like they could’ve used some more work. As a sci-fi fan, I would’ve liked more of that plot.

I love what the author did by

never naming the main character, making you fully inhabit her mind, even as you grow to hate her for being kind of a sociopath and making such ridiculous choices. Her inability to question almost anything had me tearing my hair out. But still, I enjoyed the read.

And I loved Arthur and Maggie.

I wouldn’t say I’d whole heartedly recommend it, but I’ll definitely be thinking about this book for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Cannibalism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism

gbeene's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I generally enjoyed the story as a whole; however, the last 20% of the story, truly the plot-dense portion of the novel, was incredibly rushed. The verbiage was somewhat pedantic (even considering that characters were from different centuries with different language). The novel would’ve been better had it not tried to touch on so many genres. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

cheyanne111222's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Medical content, War

Minor: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Deportation

abicaro17's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I wanted to like this book SO bad! Graham Gore is a commander for the British Navy who after getting lost in an Arctic expedition gets taken to present day Britain by The Ministry of Time. The main character (who apparently doesn't have a name??? wtf) works as the bridge between Gore and modern day culture and concepts. The issue with this book is %100 the writing and characters. The concept of this book is incredible and if it achieved what it promised this would probably be my favorite book of the year. Unfortunately, this was not only unromantic, unfunny, and boring but it was also so confusing. Gore shows more interest in his best friend Arthur than he does the FMC. They have less than zero chemistry together and it baffles me that she spends like most of the book basically writing in her diary about how handsome he is and how she loves him. He basically only ever talks to her like a roommate even when they hookup. Gore was the most well developed and yet he still fell so flat as a character. The FMC was a one dimensional follower and never decided anything on her own. I was rooting for the bad guys at the end. I fucking hate that I didn't like this book but its just so poorly written it was basically mental torture to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, Pandemic/Epidemic

chris_reads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Colonisation, Dysphoria

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization

rnbhargava's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed this book. The pacing is mostly quite well done. The characters are wonderful and there’s a lot of diversity in the cast. My only gripe is that the absolute ending of the main driving plot feels a bit rushed thus slightly anticlimactic. I even really like the denouement. Overall, this book is highly recommended 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

The triggers are mostly of the variety of time displaced individuals saying, showing or doing things that they either were allowed to do that are no longer appropriate in the contemporary world of most of the rest of the story or the opposite, indulging in things that they weren’t allowed to do openly before.

rrubin97's review against another edition

1.75

challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I am not sure why I just didn’t DNF it. The main characters were all annoying and obtuse. The author is very wordy. The whole thing made no sense in the end and sci fi is fine but she didn’t have rules around it just we don’t understand how it works so trust the narrator which is frustrating 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Murder