A review by omnomicons
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

2.0

I really liked the concept and I had a lot of fun reading the different accents and vocabularies etc, and I always sort of enjoy reading workplace satires. I did feel this book was a little sloppy. the romance feels cheesy, like fanfiction, and grahams traits don’t feel at all realistic. I didn’t really buy him and the MC falling in love and I would have preferred he fell in love with Arthur. the side characters are horribly developed; they appear and disappear intermittently not as a function of their characterization but in a way that feels like Bradley forgot about them and then remembered and shoehorned them in. I also felt the pacing of the plot was off; the romance constitutes the bulk of the middle when I really felt like it should have been a subplot. the ending is rushed and confusing. the world building is unclear. a lot of this novel feels like the author smushed many things together when each thing was deserving of its own book