A review by alythespoon
All Clear by Connie Willis

3.0

Giving this three stars only because of the last 100 pages, at which point this book actually got good. Otherwise, it was too long and too precious with clues toward the final outcome of its mystery. The denouement relies heavily on the revelation of information which, as a person who has read a lot of time travel books, I picked up on very early (by which I mean in the first book), and the fact that the professional time travelers didn’t get it until the end was really frustrating to me. Not to mention the pages on pages of dialog that did nothing to advance the plot or advance character development, but only to show just how much research and work Willis put into this book. And I respect that, I truly do, but there’s absolutely no reason why this book needed to be nearly 700 pages long.