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A review by kristianawithak
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
4.0
The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley, is a great time travel-ly romance. It is the perfect fun enthralling read.
I was happy reading this book and I had a great time. I was texting my friends about the swooning tension occurring. I didn’t know where the novel was going but I was happily along for the ride.
Here’s the plot in a nutshell: Time travel exists, a secret government agency is testing it out on historical expats. The expats have handlers who live with them, help keep tabs on them, and help them adjust to modern life. There’s danger, there’s humor. It’s not too heavy on the romance or the science. So if you want one but not the other don’t let the genres dissuade you.
The direct to reader asides are not my fav. That’s more personal preference to me than a dig against the novel. I also don’t love blatant foreshadowing. It dropped too many comments about the fate of the characters. But overall I really enjoyed it and I think readers are really going to like it. “1847”/Commander Graham Gore is going to have many fans.
Government organizations with secret departments is a specific niche I rather enjoy. If you’re looking for move books along this line try The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland, or The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley.
If you’d like more time travel romance try A Quantum Love Story, by Mike Chen, or An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim.
Here are some quotes from Kaliane Bradley:
“I’d fixated on Graham because ever since seeing his daguerreotype, I’d fallen a little in love with him, and I wanted my readers to be a little in love with him, too.”
“Writing this novel was a sometimes quite exposing journey into thinking about mixed-race identity, inherited trauma, and the ways the personal can be political, or politicized.”
Quotes from the book:
“All likeable people know how to be a flattering mirror.”
“If you ever fall in love you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
“When something changes you constitutionally, you say: ‘the earth moved’. But the earth stays the same. It’s your relationship with the ground that shifts.”
I was happy reading this book and I had a great time. I was texting my friends about the swooning tension occurring. I didn’t know where the novel was going but I was happily along for the ride.
Here’s the plot in a nutshell: Time travel exists, a secret government agency is testing it out on historical expats. The expats have handlers who live with them, help keep tabs on them, and help them adjust to modern life. There’s danger, there’s humor. It’s not too heavy on the romance or the science. So if you want one but not the other don’t let the genres dissuade you.
The direct to reader asides are not my fav. That’s more personal preference to me than a dig against the novel. I also don’t love blatant foreshadowing. It dropped too many comments about the fate of the characters. But overall I really enjoyed it and I think readers are really going to like it. “1847”/Commander Graham Gore is going to have many fans.
Government organizations with secret departments is a specific niche I rather enjoy. If you’re looking for move books along this line try The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland, or The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley.
If you’d like more time travel romance try A Quantum Love Story, by Mike Chen, or An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim.
Here are some quotes from Kaliane Bradley:
“I’d fixated on Graham because ever since seeing his daguerreotype, I’d fallen a little in love with him, and I wanted my readers to be a little in love with him, too.”
“Writing this novel was a sometimes quite exposing journey into thinking about mixed-race identity, inherited trauma, and the ways the personal can be political, or politicized.”
Quotes from the book:
“All likeable people know how to be a flattering mirror.”
“If you ever fall in love you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
“When something changes you constitutionally, you say: ‘the earth moved’. But the earth stays the same. It’s your relationship with the ground that shifts.”