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A review by katieinca
All Clear by Connie Willis
4.0
Definitely the second half of one giant book, not to be read in isolation.
Takes a long time to rev up, and also a long time to figure out what's happening to whom, but some of that is intentionally mysterious. Then it hits its stride and you can't put it down for, oh, I don't know, six hundred pages or so. Great finagling of character and setting and OF COURSE timelines. I learned A TON about World War II, and I enjoyed it, which was... unlikely.
But the "oh no we've destroyed the universe" "oh wait everything is fine" and repeat ad infinitum gets a little wearing eventually. There's a lot of heart in this book, as much as it's a bit bogged down in its own time travel theory whatchamawhozits.
Takes a long time to rev up, and also a long time to figure out what's happening to whom, but some of that is intentionally mysterious. Then it hits its stride and you can't put it down for, oh, I don't know, six hundred pages or so. Great finagling of character and setting and OF COURSE timelines. I learned A TON about World War II, and I enjoyed it, which was... unlikely.
But the "oh no we've destroyed the universe" "oh wait everything is fine" and repeat ad infinitum gets a little wearing eventually. There's a lot of heart in this book, as much as it's a bit bogged down in its own time travel theory whatchamawhozits.