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The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: October 31, 2024

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Aug 22, 2024 Amy rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, _own-home-library, read-in-2024, debut, rec-gma-book-club-pick, literary-fiction, sci-fi

2.5 stars rounded to 3. I really wanted to love this book and there were a few elements that I’d say worked well for me but most of it did not. I think this is more a case of the book not being for me. There is so much happening here that I think it kind of lost me in its breadth of scope. Speculative fiction + romance + literary fiction + historical fiction + some sci-fi. It was just a lot for this reader and I never felt like I could sink in and connect with it. There were lines that were bril ...more

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Jan 03, 2025 Jules rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical, literary, science-fiction

In 1845, a Victorian Arctic explorer by the name of Graham Gore, along with 128 men under the command of Sir John Franklin, set out on what history would call the Franklin Expedition: two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, in search of the Northwest Passage. Their ships reached the Canadian Arctic and stayed afloat but shipwrecked by crushing ice for almost two years. Weakened by scurvy, tuberculosis, and a host of other maladies, the survivors began walking the 800 miles back to the mainland. Th ...more

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Jul 11, 2024 Tfalcone rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Really liked the premise.

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May 08, 2024 Jessica rated it liked it

*DNF at 35%, but I did skim through to the ending*

I think this book does a lot of things right - the humor was very witty and the concept is intriguing. This is not the book to read if you need the time travel explained and the book is very up-front about that.

I had two problems that caused me to DNF. The first was that I couldn't connect to the main character at all, and the humorous dialogue didn't help in that way. There's a way to have a book be humorous but have the characters still have s ...more

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