David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is a fantastical journey forward
in time. Told in several engaging voices, the stories of Holly Sykes and Hugo
Lamb and Crispin Hershey begin to overlap and merge and get more far fetched as the
reader is drawn further into the future.
I was completely engaged and engrossed
in Mitchell's most recent novel. He creates a new metaphysical world with
forces of good and evil on the other side of the earthly realm as we know
it. His characters are both ordinary
human beings and extraordinary reincarnations from the past. This book could definitely be classified as
science fiction. But don't let that turn you off if you don't think of yourself
as a sci fi person. The characters are real, especially Holly Sykes who is a
salt of the earth daughter of a pub owner in Kent. You are drawn to her story as she fearlessly moves through her life.
Time travel, mind reading, predicting the
future, this book takes the reader through many centuries and around the world
and beyond. You don't have to read David Mitchell's other books before you read
this one. But you may recognize a few characters and places, if you have. I've
read Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green and dearly love those. My friend, the high
school English teacher, has her students read Black Swan Green every year. If
you haven't discovered David Mitchell, maybe it's time you do. And if you already
love Mitchell, then hurry to read The Bone Clocks.
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