The Ministry of Time: A Novel

This book moved VERY slow, it only picked up/ got interesting at the end. I felt in my opinion there were a lot of unanswered questions, but I guess that was on purpose. An interesting book in the sense you can’t tell who the protagonists are and who the antagonists are at the end.

Unforgettable characters!!

Honestly it's somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, I enjoyed the first half of the book but the second half was so much WTF? So basically the author got her AU fanfiction about Graham Gore published... and that's really about it. The narrator is never named and is patently obviously the author, the plot is thin enough to be tranparent and the espionage elements were so clumsily added into the plot, you could almost see the crowbar.

LOVED this book. A smart, entertaining read!

I loved the backstory of why the book was written (the author’s unhinged obsession with a daguerreotype of a long-dead, very handsome Arctic explorer) and really, really loved the first third or so where Commander Gore and his fellow expats are exposed to modern life. Muppets! Scooters! Spotify! So funny and smart - I had the highest hopes for where this was going… But then it lost me. The main character was annoying. The love story felt forced and weird. The spy/traitor business was very confusing. The big twisty surprise about one of the characters was very lame. It just kind of went off the rails trying to be too many things and lost all of the fun of the first part. Also: I listened to some sections of this as an audiobook and have to say the narrator was not my favorite - the girl voice parts were mumbled and hard to understand and the boy voice parts sounded like when me and my friends imitate our husbands saying something dumb. You have a competent male narrator already booked - use him for the boy voices! I just thank the baby jeebus I didn’t listen to any of the sex scenes on audio bc that would have been horrific.