A review by jennifer_stark
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

4.0

A book I couldn't wait to get through because it really is a book that needs to be finished and viewed as a whole before you can decide what it all means... It's not a neat little story that hands over the answers and makes you feel warm fuzzies at the end, it's definitely challenging in the concepts and ideas it brings up, but I love a book that challenges and makes you think. I love how the book seems to bring up both the ideas that nothing is real and everything in inconsequential, yet also that everything is real and that everything that comes before actually really does matter. A conflict of interests, but one that somehow seems to make sense at the end. I love a book that can make you feel pulled in both ways equally, and actually enjoy the feeling, and that's what this book was like for me.