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A review by readsrandiread
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Do you ever give a book one rating but then over time start to feel your rating change, either up or down?? The rating above is my initial rating, but I can see it climbing up the more I think about this book, which I think I’ll be doing a lot of.
🌖 Time travel. Colonies in the moon. Deadly pandemics. Reality vs simulation. There is so much going on in just over 250 pages!
“—and my point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally, we have reached the end of the world.
I have had this book at the top of my literal TBR stack for almost a year now. Not sure why it took me so long to actually pick it up, but I’m glad I finally did! There are many different characters spread over many hundreds of years, and I enjoyed reading some of them more than others. But the end of this book 👏🏻 as it’s all coming together and I realized all the small clues and things I had missed 👏🏻 SO GOOD!! 👏🏻
🌖 Time travel. Colonies in the moon. Deadly pandemics. Reality vs simulation. There is so much going on in just over 250 pages!
“—and my point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally, we have reached the end of the world.
I have had this book at the top of my literal TBR stack for almost a year now. Not sure why it took me so long to actually pick it up, but I’m glad I finally did! There are many different characters spread over many hundreds of years, and I enjoyed reading some of them more than others. But the end of this book 👏🏻 as it’s all coming together and I realized all the small clues and things I had missed 👏🏻 SO GOOD!! 👏🏻