I loved this. I especially enjoyed her beautiful turns of phrase, and the way she writes dialog.

DNF at 42%. I don't get the hype at all. Couldn't be more boring.

"Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel." Well, that was interesting... and boring. Am not sure what the author was trying to write. Sci-fi? Historical fiction? Fantasy? Contemporary romance? Spy thriller? It was a poor blend of them all and ultimately not making much sense. The blurb is much more exciting than ...

DNF'd 2 years ago.
Tried again and gave it 4 stars- what a moment!

I want to thank this book for providing me with some much-needed perspective on what a really bad book is like. It made me feel a lot more kindly toward those not-perfect-but-not-this-bad books I have been reading. Seriously. It made me feel like a snoop, as if I were intentionally peeking into somebody's teenage secret diary, drippy, sentimental, wish-fulfillment private fantasies with this oh-so-hot fictional-historical crush. But the problem is not just that, because authors can use that fant...

Billed as 'a time-toying spy romance' by Kirkus, this 'genre-bending' novel reads more like slice of life with speculative elements that, unfortunately, never feel fully developed or satisfying.Set in the near future and narrated by an unnamed main character, we follow a set of 'time ex-pats' pulled from various points in the past through a time door that the British government has commandeered and is using for...some purpose unbeknownst to us? Our protagonist serves as a 'bridge' aka a glorifie...

No words.

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On: The Book Review Crew BlogI was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It was utterly unique mixing a wide range of genres. Normally I don't enjoy books where the author can't make up their mind what category their book falls into but Kaliane Bradley makes it work. The way she mixed time travel, romance and a spy story was so intelligent and extraordinary that I just got lost in the words and the world-building. I also enjoyed how she researched and...

Originally posted here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I loved this book. It was funny, charming, sad and clever... but the overwhelming feeling I’m experiencing as I sit down to write this review is anger. Anger at all the people who rated this book 1 star and screamed "plagiarism" after reading a title and blurb, and anger at all the mindless sheep who rushed to copy them. I'm trying to stay calm and collected, but I confess I'm furious about what has happened here. Bradley has been h...

it’s only March, but I can confidently say literally no matter what else I’ll be reading this year, this book will firmly sit at the #1 spot of “what the f did I just read” by the end of 2024. 🫡Simply put, The Ministry of Time (which has NOTHING to do with the Spanish series of the same name and sure as hell didn't plagiarise anything) is a novel set in not so distant future Britain about a compliant civil servant who out of the blue is told that her country has acquired the means to travel thr...