Sean Randall reviewed All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel by Elan Mastai
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5 stars
Wow. This is seriously starworthy, and no mistake. True, Tom feels younger than someone writing in his thirties, but then is that because depictions of people in that age bracket are somewhat hard to find in this sort of genre?
The story itself is another one of those hard to pin down things, it’s remarkably gripping, and although I knew after only 4 minutes in I’d enjoy it, the reasons for that changed throughout. To start with, it was the compelling nature of the future he described, but then I got tangled up with the actual mechanics: of another but a different you, of the person you slept with being from the same parents but conceived differently, of piling time travel atop time travel and world on world.
There’s no denying that this isn’t a book you can outline well without properly savouring it first, but I can’t even do …
Wow. This is seriously starworthy, and no mistake. True, Tom feels younger than someone writing in his thirties, but then is that because depictions of people in that age bracket are somewhat hard to find in this sort of genre?
The story itself is another one of those hard to pin down things, it’s remarkably gripping, and although I knew after only 4 minutes in I’d enjoy it, the reasons for that changed throughout. To start with, it was the compelling nature of the future he described, but then I got tangled up with the actual mechanics: of another but a different you, of the person you slept with being from the same parents but conceived differently, of piling time travel atop time travel and world on world.
There’s no denying that this isn’t a book you can outline well without properly savouring it first, but I can’t even do that because it was just a joy to read. I owe a debt of gratitude to Chris for finding it.