The more I think about it the more I don't like this series. But at the point where I was reading this book, I still had hope. (it ends in a cliffhanger). Tension attempts to be created by the characters constantly trying to get somewhere and talking to themselves or each other about the minutiae of...
There are a lot of things I really like about this novel. It is extremely well researched and detailed. The characters are fairly engaging and no one makes me want to throw my kindle across the room. And I can see why it won the Hugo. One of the cleverest things about the book is the way that Willis...
The characters seemed rather cut-out & anonymous, which might not be so bad if they weren't all so routinely stupid. They fail again and again at basic logic, and have such horrendous gaps in their historical knowledge that it's a wonder any of them graduated high school, much less were allowed to p...
My favorite category of time travel fiction sends cautious but dauntlessly curious academic types into the past to research history and Blackout, set during the Blitz of London, stands out in this group because it also includes plenty of humor, lots of period details about ordinary lives, and a larg...
I am, in general, a big fan of Connie Willis. Not every book has struck me exactly right, but I do enjoy them. And this series of time travel books tend to be enjoyable, although they vary wildly, from a door-slamming farce to wrench-your-heart-out, leave-you-in-tears Black Death Romps. So I was exc...
I feel a bit used. I've listened to the audiobook performed by Katherine Kellgren and apart from her over enunciating "pAAAsengers" she did several different types of British accents extremely well. Well enough that the boring characters in this book came to life. The banal things they overcome when...
period detail on WWII London is fun, and the characters are interesting, but I found it to wander a lot; wish it had more pace in the back half of the book...
I don’t know why I am not a fan of Willis, I truly do not. In terms of sentences, flow, and humor, she is a great writer. Yet, I couldn’t finish The Doomsday book, and while I finished this book, I wasn’t wrapped up in the story. Willis is great; she excels at getting time and place. And she seem...
So far, so good.... I'll review when I've finished [b:All Clear|7519231|All Clear|Connie Willis|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320549311s/7519231.jpg|9735628].
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