This book is too long, too slow moving and almost half of the book didn´t work for me. And yet I really loved this book in the end. Kivrin Engle is a time traveller, sent back to the middle ages to study the people and their living. But something goes horribly wrong and she arrives at the right pl...
Series: Oxford Time Travel #1 I'm still debating whether I should give this five stars or stick to 4.5. This was a reread for me and I still found it compelling, although I didn't blaze through it in a couple days like I did the first time around. There are, admittedly, some issues with regards to...
So historians in 2054 have time travel tech and use it to travel back and study the past. In this story a young historian, Kivrin, convinces the history department at her college to let her travel back to 1320, but what they don't know is that she has been infected with a new strain of flu. She is a...
Kivrin Engle is a young history student at Oxford University, whose dream it is to time travel back in time to the Middle Ages. You see, in the 2050s, historians have the option to travel back in time as a research tool, to truly discover what the past was like. Most historians travel back to the ea...
I'm really conflicted with this book. On the one hand I can say that objectively this is an excellent novel. It's well written, the characters are fully fleshed out, the plot is engaging, etc etc. However, while I was captivated by parts of the novel there were other parts that I didn't like and str...
I first got introduced to Connie Willis through some of her more light-hearted, humorous books. This is absolutely not one of those. This book was much more serious, frustrating, and heartbreaking. Without getting into spoilers, this book portrays characters experiencing the worst bad luck imagi...
I approached this book with a puntual idea in mind. I wanted to read about time travel in the 14th century, but I thought to find more action. Actually I wasn't disappointed, at all, I liked it and the epidemic theme and all the parallelism between the events unfolding in the present and the forekno...
This book is amazing in so many ways. Willis breathes life into all her characters. At the same time, she manages to turn what could be a very depressing story into an engaging tale.
Much respect for all the research Willis did for this book. It is EXTREMELY detailed. However, the plot is so meandering and repetitive, it comes off has boring. I started skimming and it wasn't a problem, because I knew if I missed a plot point, it would be repeated 2 or 3 more times and I could ke...
I've given 'Doomsday Book' full marks, but I haven't talked in some time about what five stars means to me. "It was amazing" is the official definition, but that doesn't quite cover it. An amazing read to me doesn't have to be technically perfect, in fact, flaws can even be preferred. 'Doomsday Book...
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