Meg's review of The Invention of Everything Else
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Where do I even start about how good this book is? I mean first of all it's the best book I've read so far this year. It features many things I love: historically-accurate descriptions of New York City landmarks, NIKOLA TESLA, a love story, government spies, time travel, and that's just to get us started.
I think what it is, it's just that Samantha Hunt writes complete fabric. This is a short book but it is extremely dense, you don't want to miss anything and nor should you. I'm kind of a speed-reader/skimmer, and I did things unheard of in my regular reading--I re-read paragraphs three and four times, I re-started chapters, I took breaks between pages because I was just so overwhelmed by how much there WAS how much DOING how thrilling and beautiful and compact and lovely the text was, how moving and engaging and driving the story was. There weren't cheap turns and though I lived in fear that the ending would be a disappointment (I mean it's an ENDING, they are impossible t...more
I think what it is, it's just that Samantha Hunt writes complete fabric. This is a short book but it is extremely dense, you don't want to miss anything and nor should you. I'm kind of a speed-reader/skimmer, and I did things unheard of in my regular reading--I re-read paragraphs three and four times, I re-started chapters, I took breaks between pages because I was just so overwhelmed by how much there WAS how much DOING how thrilling and beautiful and compact and lovely the text was, how moving and engaging and driving the story was. There weren't cheap turns and though I lived in fear that the ending would be a disappointment (I mean it's an ENDING, they are impossible t...more
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