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A review by sterlingisreading
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.75
Grabbed this from a used bookstore while I was offloading some old books. The main character, Tom Barren, lives in the futuristic 2016 that the 1950’s dreamed of: flying cars, teleportation, robot maids, space vacations. It’s a future where we’ve solved all of humanity’s problems with technology. Tom is a disappointment to his genius father, who is on the cusp of cracking the code of time travel. Tom meets a woman and it turns his life upside down, so he does what any heartbroken man would do if he had access to a time machine: something stupid.
This book fits in perfectly with the two Matt Haig novels I just finished. Engaging, simply written first person storytelling in a sci-fi world. It’s pretty long, nearly 400 pages, but the way it’s written and the way the chapters are sliced up makes it a quick read. The last chapters kind of lost me, the plot became unwieldy and it felt like the author lost his grip, but overall it was fun. Like the Matt Haig novels I just read, there’s nothing groundbreaking or gut wrenching here, but cozying up with these books makes for a relaxing weekend.
This book fits in perfectly with the two Matt Haig novels I just finished. Engaging, simply written first person storytelling in a sci-fi world. It’s pretty long, nearly 400 pages, but the way it’s written and the way the chapters are sliced up makes it a quick read. The last chapters kind of lost me, the plot became unwieldy and it felt like the author lost his grip, but overall it was fun. Like the Matt Haig novels I just read, there’s nothing groundbreaking or gut wrenching here, but cozying up with these books makes for a relaxing weekend.