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joejr 's review for:
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
With two of my favorite things ever, time travel and Canadian landscapes, this book felt like it was written specifically for me. So I was especially sad when it missed the mark.
Some things that didn't work for me personally:
- generic main character
- her depiction of the future was mundane
- no stakes really at all
But my biggest gripe was that the book never answered why any of this mattered or why you should care. Why did Gaspery have to interview all those people? What did those interviews prove? Though I guess it does kind of give an answer, right at the very end. After 250 pages the author finally admits plainly that none of it mattered after all.
It feels like the author was sitting around during covid lockdown, watched a youtube video on simulation theory, wrote a short story about it, then lockdown lasted longer than anticipated so she turned it into a novel.
Some things that didn't work for me personally:
- generic main character
- her depiction of the future was mundane
- no stakes really at all
But my biggest gripe was that the book never answered why any of this mattered or why you should care. Why did Gaspery have to interview all those people? What did those interviews prove? Though I guess it does kind of give an answer, right at the very end. After 250 pages the author finally admits plainly that none of it mattered after all.
It feels like the author was sitting around during covid lockdown, watched a youtube video on simulation theory, wrote a short story about it, then lockdown lasted longer than anticipated so she turned it into a novel.