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aberdeenwaters's review against another edition
4.0
As much about relationships and shared experiences as it is about time travel. I found it engaging and filled with ideas that made me think.
ettuladyblue's review against another edition
2.0
I feel like Palmer tried to cram a bit too much into this. The online dating? Super interesting. Marital drama/Trauma? I'm a sucker for it. Time travel (but don't call it that!)? I dig. All of those halfheartedly converging lose me.It's all so interesting I'll keep reading, but I there'd been more of a self edit to develop one or two of these ideas instead of halfbaked mishmashes of all three.
jessicaxmaria's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
maiapapaya's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
tricapra's review against another edition
4.0
Didn't mean for this to be the first book I finished this year, but I just couldn't get it wrapped up before the 31st. I had a great time with this one, but falls in a weird gray zone, because it's probably too 'literary' for the sci-fi crowd, and too heavy on science talk for the standard literary fiction crowd. That said, I really enjoyed it. May have even got a tear or two from me.
11corvus11's review against another edition
4.0
This is a tough book to review. I could not choose between 3 or 4 stars so I rounded up. I do not mind at all that this book bends genres, shifting between your average fiction literature to fairly hard scifi and back. My criticisms of this book are that I found the characters- all of them- to be boring at best or quite dislikable (in a non-interesting way.) This made the long length of the book- my other criticism- very difficult to get through. The first half of the book is basically a story about average, unexciting, heterosexual upper middle class people and their marriage issues. It has a little bit of near-future scifi woven throughout. But, it is not until halfway through that it gets going. I will not say more as it would involve spoilers. There is a lot of repetitive descriptions of events in these boring peoples lives, which serves some purpose, but seems drawn out. I think this book could have been edited down to about 1/2-2/3 its size.
All of that said, I thought that the way the author approached the subject of time travel in a genre-shifting way was creative. I found the book to be well written even if I disliked the characters. When the first big shift happened, I definitely felt a smile hit my face. Even if it wasn't completely for me, it could definitely be for someone else.
All of that said, I thought that the way the author approached the subject of time travel in a genre-shifting way was creative. I found the book to be well written even if I disliked the characters. When the first big shift happened, I definitely felt a smile hit my face. Even if it wasn't completely for me, it could definitely be for someone else.
audlsc's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
jmoses's review against another edition
4.0
This was pretty great. I went into it with almost no knowledge of it, beyond some reviews that were all starry-eyed at it's greatness, and that it was scifi.
Well, for the first 55%-ish of the book? Yeah, it's all about the characters and their relationships. Which was _not_ what I was expected. It was still good though. The characters are great, and the writing is also excellent. So I kept reading. And then suddenly the scifi punched me in the face, and then crashed my car. Wow. From zero to over 9000 in a handful of pages.
The end result? Yes, this is an excellent book, and it is scifi. Just not....all the time. It was all very interesting and I could probably go on and on but I would just be writing about spoilers.
So, 4 stars. Not 5 because I can't see re-reading this, however much I liked it.
Well, for the first 55%-ish of the book? Yeah, it's all about the characters and their relationships. Which was _not_ what I was expected. It was still good though. The characters are great, and the writing is also excellent. So I kept reading. And then suddenly the scifi punched me in the face, and then crashed my car. Wow. From zero to over 9000 in a handful of pages.
The end result? Yes, this is an excellent book, and it is scifi. Just not....all the time. It was all very interesting and I could probably go on and on but I would just be writing about spoilers.
So, 4 stars. Not 5 because I can't see re-reading this, however much I liked it.