![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So I’m left looking back at wonderful snippets - seriously, Barcelona, ohmygod - but not really caring about the plot overall. Stephanie Perkins kept showing me why I love her in specific moments - like Barcelona, ohmygod - but as a whole this story was badly paced and badly plotted. This didn't.ġ) Certain Scenes vs The Entire Plot: My biggest sentiment with this book was that I LOVED a lot of scenes, but didn’t really like the plot overall. But those moments came mixed together with depth. Anna and Lola also had cheesy and wonderful moments. Stephanie Perkins knows how to write some truly adorable moments. I flew through the entire thing in one day. My order is officially Anna, Lola, and then Isla.īefore I get into the meat of this all, please know that I didn't hate it. Let me start with the question everyone wants to know: is this your new favourite Stephanie Perkins? Unfortunately, not even close. MY HEART IS BROKEN, BUT MY HEART IS TRUE. ![]()
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English trader James Parker and his partner, Harry Holt, are about to embark on a journey beyond the Mutia Escarpment, where a fabled ivory-rich elephants' graveyard lies, when James's daughter Jane arrives from England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no changing of history’s course, no butterfly effect as in Ray Bradbury‘s “A Sound of Thunder.” Rather ” ‘- All You Zombies -’ ” follows an unfolding of events that, as the reader comes to understand, were always meant to happen and could occur no other way.īut this does not mean that the story is simple. However, this is not the case with Heinlein’s tale. But, as time travel stories tend to do, things are not quite what they seem and what begins as a simple, straightforward tale ends up bending through time and space (and the reader’s brain as they try to follow along).Ī flaw in many time travel stories is they suffer from a lack of internal logic, leaving the stories with gaping plot holes a mile wide. 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