Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Timeline by Michael Crichton

1 review

shieldbearer's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

There were some things I really liked and some things I really didn't. The premise is excellent. You can tell the book is very well researched. however, the weak point really is the characters, except for Lady Claire and Merrick. Kate.. man I really liked some things about her, but she didn't has a much of a presence as I'd have liked, though I do love the way her skills as a climber were so vital to so many sequences. I felt it dragged some with unecessary complications, and I really wish the character dynamics were better fleshed out between everyone. Fuck Chris though, like his development was rushed and hamfisted just so he could get to fuck Kate in the epilogue.  I really don't see the point of making Lady Claire pretend to be a boy, though I do appreciate her

relationship with Merrick was NOT the main reason he stayed in the past.

I also wished the doctor and the cop from the start had a more significant role and didn't end up scapegoated. 

Some of my dissatisfaction is from this not being the book I would have written, but I really, really disliked Chris. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Infidelity, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Confinement, Acephobia/Arophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Torture, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape