Good, but needed some brutal editing
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After reading this book I found it difficult to decide if I had actually enjoyed it. The plot didn't seem to really unfurl until four hundred pages had passed; I didn't sympathise with any of the irritatingly perfect characters; and the ordinary prose would frequently jar when characters who were usually eloquent would suddenly slip into sexual colloquial (I originally gave examples, but amazon rejected my review!). Character development is one thing, but inconsistency is quite another, and it certainly seemed to fall into the latter category.
That said, I finished it, and considering the novel is comfortably over five hundred pages long, that does say something really positive about it, as many other novels would have fallen by the wayside. Something, though I know not what, kept me reading.
I believe that if the novel had had two hundred pages edited out it would have been a much pacier book and its limitations less noticeable. I know two hundred sounds an awful lot, and it is, but I genuinely don't think it would have hampered the story or the characterisation. As it is, the book is good, but you won't be missing out if you don't read it.
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Unputdownable!
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An obscure concept that totally works. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a long time!
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Slow
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After reading this drearily slow book, I was amazed to read the Amazon reviews. Are we talking about the same book?
I agree it has a good ending, but the rest of the book was like taking a walk in lead boots. Hard going!
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Interesting and enjoyable but dragged in the middle
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The concept for this book is amazing - time travel - what a ridiculous idea but it works incredibly well. The structure of the book is handled very carefully and there are no flaws in the movements in time.
After I had got my mind around the time movement concept and settled into the book, I then found myself waiting for something else to happen to take the story to the next stage and nothing did. I felt that the story was very lacking in the middle and only came back to life again at the end of the book.
The last 50 pages were really enjoyable to read. I found that I had been reading really quickly for a while up to that point as nothing new had been happening for some time and when I got towards the end had to slow down to take in the beautiful ending.
I am not simply looking for a thriller in a read but expected more to happen alongside the amazing idea of time travel.
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Perfect and unforgetable
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I loved this book...
I didnt know much about it when i bought it and it just blew my mind.
You have to read it!
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