The story is told in a fun way, with an interesting time travel concept, and does a great job of using the time travel to explore relationships between people, what we know about one another, and what it means to be you. Great book.
A clever and entertaining time travel novel that reads like it was written by a screenwriter. The novel is a fictional memoir and alternate realities let the author address issues concerning the nature of our character and what determines it. The usual time travel paradoxes are handled pretty well with short Deus ex machina explanations like temporal anchor that seem well-planned and help to keep the reader from pausing to roll his eyes as the plot progresses.
A fun read with an interesting take on time travel. I think it would have been improved by a few more beta readers to make the women in the story a little more three dimensional, and there is a fetishization of motherhood which I found really off putting.
Otherwise this review over at Quill & Quire says it all much better than I could:
https://quillandquire.com/review/all-our-wrong-todays/
For a while I thought this would be a 4 star read but the last 7-10% of the book dragged the rest of it down for me.
First of all, this book requires an extreme amount of patience (or more experience reading speculative fiction) because it took a long time for the author to set out all of the time travel/future world concepts that would drive the book. After spending all this time making sure we understand how great this future world is and how much he wants to get it back, I found it almost a waste of my time that in the end he decides to do nothing and keep the world the way it was. I also really didn't understand the bit in the end with John, Victor and Tom all fighting for control. I mean, I did, but I just felt like the ending got a …
For a while I thought this would be a 4 star read but the last 7-10% of the book dragged the rest of it down for me.
First of all, this book requires an extreme amount of patience (or more experience reading speculative fiction) because it took a long time for the author to set out all of the time travel/future world concepts that would drive the book. After spending all this time making sure we understand how great this future world is and how much he wants to get it back, I found it almost a waste of my time that in the end he decides to do nothing and keep the world the way it was. I also really didn't understand the bit in the end with John, Victor and Tom all fighting for control. I mean, I did, but I just felt like the ending got a little out of control, and that the author was like, well let's wrap this up, rather than following through on the story. I don't know. This was different, and it held my interest, I think I just wish it had ended differently.
