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A review by isabellarobinson7
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
2.0
Rating: 2 stars
Why is everyone raving about this book? It takes half the book trying to figure out what kind of sci-fi it's gonna be, and then it when it does, it's over so quickly that there was no point at all. I even forgot that the reason I picked it up was because of the time travel aspect, because it took so long to get to it. This thing is 320 pages, but it felt more like 120 for all that happens. The writing was fine, I guess, but I am finding that I don't really notice prose until it is super duper purple and over the top. All this is to say that I truly don't get what people see in this book. I must have missed the boat entirely, because all I read was a mediocre science fiction story that I am almost guaranteed to forget about in a months time.
Why is everyone raving about this book? It takes half the book trying to figure out what kind of sci-fi it's gonna be, and then it when it does, it's over so quickly that there was no point at all. I even forgot that the reason I picked it up was because of the time travel aspect, because it took so long to get to it. This thing is 320 pages, but it felt more like 120 for all that happens. The writing was fine, I guess, but I am finding that I don't really notice prose until it is super duper purple and over the top. All this is to say that I truly don't get what people see in this book. I must have missed the boat entirely, because all I read was a mediocre science fiction story that I am almost guaranteed to forget about in a months time.