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A review by eveasc
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
4.0
(This is a repeat review. I previously read this book in June 2025, before listening to the audiobook a month later. I have made some updates but it mostly remains the same.)
I liked this a lot! Anything that identifies itself as romance I tend to feel a little bit cautious about but the couple here were both very British about the whole thing which is honestly perfect for me.
I really enjoyed the twists and turns the plot took. There were lulls but the mix of being able to anticipate what was going to happen and sudden turns into unexpected events was great. There is a twist close to the end of the book that is very well supported by the events and atmosphere of the book up til that point, which is exactly how I want my plot twists to come. Reading/listening to it the second time around was still pretty satisfying even though I knew it was coming, because I could pick up the hints dropped as they came.
The narrators future-self interjections were a great feature too. I didn't like her but I don't think I was supposed to anyway! She gets up to a lot of morally questionable (and workplace inappropriate) activity. I could understand the way she operated though, and perhaps even why she made the choices she did.
The audiobook narration was very good. It was very clear when each character was speaking and the way the speaker conveyed each voice was very close to what I had imagined when I read the print version, for both emotion and accent.
I liked this a lot! Anything that identifies itself as romance I tend to feel a little bit cautious about but the couple here were both very British about the whole thing which is honestly perfect for me.
I really enjoyed the twists and turns the plot took. There were lulls but the mix of being able to anticipate what was going to happen and sudden turns into unexpected events was great. There is a twist close to the end of the book that is very well supported by the events and atmosphere of the book up til that point, which is exactly how I want my plot twists to come. Reading/listening to it the second time around was still pretty satisfying even though I knew it was coming, because I could pick up the hints dropped as they came.
The narrators future-self interjections were a great feature too. I didn't like her but I don't think I was supposed to anyway! She gets up to a lot of morally questionable (and workplace inappropriate) activity. I could understand the way she operated though, and perhaps even why she made the choices she did.
The audiobook narration was very good. It was very clear when each character was speaking and the way the speaker conveyed each voice was very close to what I had imagined when I read the print version, for both emotion and accent.