A review by alicihonest
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

2.0

After reading Slade House, I really expected to love this book. Unfortunately, I didn't think about how the one negative factor of Slade House would be so much worse here. There is one glimmering strand of incredibly interesting, impossibly clever narrative, for sure. But it's tucked into hundreds of pages of dull, over bloated, tedious, labored exposition. The story is 2% fascinating to 98% exhausting for the first half, and by the time I made it across the threshold I just wanted it to be over. On top of this, the epilogue chapter is unnecessary and takes all the impact away from the real ending.