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A review by slolly
Le Temps fut by Ian McDonald
3.0
Most of the book I felt like giving it 2 stars, but towards the ending 4 stars. The entire book got more satisfying with the ending even though I saw it coming. So overall I'l give a 3 stars but it's anywhere between a 2 and a 4 stars...
(A lot of people say they were disappointed because of the blurb, I read it in french and the blurb is much more representative of the actual story! So I knew what I was getting into. Here it is if it can help you decide if you'd like to read it, but some might say it's basically the first half of the book:
An independent bookseller, Emmett one day finds a small collection of poems during the liquidation of a colleague's bookstore. A collection, Time Was, which quickly turns out to be of mediocre quality at best... On the other hand, what interests him at the highest point is the handwritten letter which he discovers slipped between the pages of the work. For the bookseller, anything that can give a unique and personal cachet to a book is good to take. He is here in the presence of a love letter from a certain Tom to his lover, Ben, in the heart of the Second World War. Moving heaven and earth - and old paper - to identify the two soldiers, Emmett eventually finds them in various photos, taken at different times. However, the supposed date of the photos and the age of the protagonists which appear there do not correspond ... At all.
(A lot of people say they were disappointed because of the blurb, I read it in french and the blurb is much more representative of the actual story! So I knew what I was getting into. Here it is if it can help you decide if you'd like to read it, but some might say it's basically the first half of the book:
An independent bookseller, Emmett one day finds a small collection of poems during the liquidation of a colleague's bookstore. A collection, Time Was, which quickly turns out to be of mediocre quality at best... On the other hand, what interests him at the highest point is the handwritten letter which he discovers slipped between the pages of the work. For the bookseller, anything that can give a unique and personal cachet to a book is good to take. He is here in the presence of a love letter from a certain Tom to his lover, Ben, in the heart of the Second World War. Moving heaven and earth - and old paper - to identify the two soldiers, Emmett eventually finds them in various photos, taken at different times. However, the supposed date of the photos and the age of the protagonists which appear there do not correspond ... At all.