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A review by lelainav
All Clear by Connie Willis
4.0
An ending that's really worth all the unnecessary vignettes and wildly anxious characters for the preceding 800 pages.
So much of this book is like a classical tragedy: everything would have worked out better if it weren't for the fact that these characters are absolute trash at talking to one another. At times, it left me gobsmacked, exclaiming things like "Just tell him your secret! It went very poorly the other 5 times you kept a secret from your friends; have you learned nothing?"
Though really the character of Sir Godfrey Kingsman is worth so much of this. I find him so singularly delightful that I can handle a dozen times that Polly makes a stupid decision for the sake of his one appearance.
So much of this book is like a classical tragedy: everything would have worked out better if it weren't for the fact that these characters are absolute trash at talking to one another. At times, it left me gobsmacked, exclaiming things like "Just tell him your secret! It went very poorly the other 5 times you kept a secret from your friends; have you learned nothing?"
Though really the character of Sir Godfrey Kingsman is worth so much of this. I find him so singularly delightful that I can handle a dozen times that Polly makes a stupid decision for the sake of his one appearance.