I found the framing annoying, groping desperately for post-modernism and trying too hard to be smart. All of these are aspects to a book that will not warm me to it.
I loved this, but I recognise it's a hard sell. It's also hard work to read, it took me quite a long time (a couple of months actually) to work through it, and a couple of times, as much as I loved it, I was a little loathe to pick it back up just because I knew I'd have to be using my brain to keep...
In three interwoven stories, H.G. Wells plays a reluctant role in helping solve characters’ time travel conflicts involving Jack the Ripper, a war hero who defeated automatons in the year 2000, and literary classics Bram Stoker and Henry James.Claire marched off in the opposite direction of her comp...
An amazing book! A very unique premise for a novel. Clever interweaving of several historical events around the end of the 1800's in London. Great characters and beautiful writing. One of the most original books I have ever read. Read it! You will be blown away!
I'm too dumb for this book. At least that's how I felt. I got so confused. There was too much time traveling. I got lost.I thought about giving it 2 stars only, but the book itself is not that bad...There were just so many things going on. If the writer focused on only one story, things would be cle...
This book is an imagining where H.G. Wells and a handful of characters believe, disbelieve, investigate and live through real and imagined scenarios about time travel. And although you may think that this book is more about the question if time travel is possible, it is actually more a question of f...
This was certainly an engrossing read. It had a lot going for it: it was rich in language and details, the time period was adequately portrayed, and you're first led into a plot to stop a murder after it's all ready happened--exciting right?I think there are two key points that make or break this no...
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