Terrific

Brilliantly read. Funny, clever and thought-provoking. Was totally gripped. Possibly my favourite book of 2024.

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interesting view of the future

This made you think of how the future and present time overlap, or could occur. This depends on how you imagine it.provoked by the book. Very interesting and well presented.

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Speculative and historical and gorgeous

I was very lucky to have stumbled onto this book only a few days after it came out. This is the kind of book I'm always looking for but never really find. I don't much like romances because they're usually too soppy and unrealistic. But I still look for books with romance in them because romance is one of the things that, as a part of life, makes it worth living. This book has that kind of romance in it.

I love time travel, but I'm often disappointed by the formulaic nature of time travel novels. This book is not like that.

Another way novels often disappoint me is when they or their writers don't care how terrible they make a reader feel, and in fact seem to strive for that - making readers feel terrible, I mean. This book treads difficult and dangerous waters and conversations and situations, but never made me feel like I had to put it down because reading it was getting too depressing.

Kaliane Bradley made me fall in love with a historical figure whom I'd never heard of, who is apparently only a tiny footnote in the history books. She also reminded me that hope is not stupid. It is everything there is. A motivating force for good. We need that in the world right now.

The saddest thing about this book is that I fear I will never find another one that I adore as much. Of course, I hope that's not true!

Thank you, Ms. Bradley. What a splendid story. I hope you'll soon write more novels for me to devour in next to no time.

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Cracking Storytelling

This just whips along at a great pace, touching on all sorts of crises in our modern world, viewed sometimes through they eyes of contemporary, past, and future characters.

Funny, but dark in turns, it’s beautifully narrated.

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Immersion pretty much instant

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. The scope and threads drew me in. Hope there is more to come from this author.

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Glorious

The writing lends well to the spoken format. Superbly lyrical writing and an excellently unpredictable story.

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Tricky reading performance

This is a great book but I had to revert to reading it myself as I found this audible performance very oddly cadenced, with pauses where there shouldn’t be and no pauses where there should.

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Thoughtful, well written literary fantasy tale

The story was reflective and not overburdened with either hyperbole or wild imaginings. It was a book to become immersed and invested in, with strong, believable characterisation, despite the sci-fi premise. Would listen again.

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loved it.

Writing style, personalities, stories and language. it all come together perfectly on this time trvale adventure.

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Gripping

A clever mix of history and sci-fi time travel genres with underlying messages relevant to modern existential anxieties and post colonial English guilt

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