Goodreads FirstRead
This book was hard for me to get into. My hubby and I tried to watch the movie Cloud Atlas and I marked it as one of the worst movies we watched that year. I then received this book in my mailbox from GoodReads FirstRead and thought I would give it a shot, books do tend to be better then movies.
Overall, the book was not enjoyable and I marked that it was okay. Took me months to get through it (even with the cheating/skimming through chunks). The only saving point was Holly.
The first section of the book was hard to get into, felt like the story was all over the place and I completed several other books before I even got to the second section. Second section had me skimming the pages. Reading a paragraph here and there (I am not proud of this :( I really love to read and pride myself on giving every book a chance). As the character Holly Sykes developed in later parts of the book though I became interested in her character. Cut out all the rest of the book and I would have marked this book much higher.
The story line bounced from one crazed idea to another and most made no sense to me. Maybe reading other books by David Mitchell would provide greater insight into his writing style but with a bad movie and book under my belt I think I will pass on his work for now.
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