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Martin Rundkvist reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Low-key time-travel scifi

4 stars

Content warning Discussing core plot point

I'm OK with the time travel paradoxes -- those are inevitable. But to me it's a pretty bad plot weakness here that the Time Institute notices, and manages to find documentation of, a glitch in the matrix that just looks to three observers like a migraine symptom or a petit mal epileptic fit. People's brains and senses make up all sorts of weird shit all the time, and nobody takes it as evidence of anything particularly significant.

Eric Wagoner 📚 reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Touching and Hopeful

4 stars

An easy read, and the crossovers with her other books were interesting. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.

Florian reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Superb time travel

5 stars

Sea of Tranquility is probably the best time travel story I’ve read. Super interesting and so well written

Ajbarbieri@bookwyrm.social reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Quick to read and gripping

5 stars

Was easy to read - that's what I needed at this time, and enjoyed the characters and plot. A great author.

quaad@bookwyrm.social reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

an enjoyable read.

4 stars

I liked the intertwined storylines and i thought the characters were well drawn and sympathetic. The only problem I had was the idea of the continuation of culture over hundreds of years. it rang false to me.

mouse reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Lovely

5 stars

I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.

My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).

David H reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

A hopeful pandemic novel

4 stars

I liked the story of isolated humans trying to find meaning in their lives, all tangled together and touched by the miraculous. It left me feeling hopeful and reassured.

PanaX@bookwyrm.social reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Review of 'Sea of Tranquility' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Nice short book. Nothing groundbreaking but adequately conveyed it's purpose.

Koven Smith reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Fun, lightweight

3 stars

A breezy, fun(ish, given some of the subject matter) read. The resolution of the book hinges, somewhat, on a twist that is revealed near the end, and I must confess that I was finding the book far more satisfying up to the point that the twist was revealed. It just felt a bit too “plotty” to me in a book that otherwise revels in nice details.

bbbhltz reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Absolutely Meta

5 stars

Fantastic to a point I did not expect. Very meta, and covers aspects that took me by surprise. I rarely read the descriptions of books written by authors that I have read before, and here it totally paid off. If you have read the previous two works by this author, you will like where this book takes you.