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[quote=Anonymous]Huh, interesting. I just finished this and was really disappointed by it-- thought it was more of a sketch of a story than a fully realized and fleshed out novel. I was surprised by this, given the strength of her plotting and writing in "Station Eleven" and "The Glass Hotel."

As another PP noted, a major character's choice was completely inexplicable to me, and after that point, I went from not being sure about the narrative to just full on doubting it. I also found the amount of time with the self-insert/auto-fictiony character kind of excessive and by far the least interesting part of the narrative. And finally, the explanation for what was going on just...fell so flat. (And could be seen coming from a mile away.) I think authors have to be very careful about plotting a time travel narrative, and I felt that there was several holes and issues with this one.

It's a real shame to me given that it does pull all three books together, but to me, it's the weakest one by far. I loved her other work and am not sure what happened with this one.[/quote]

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