A review by sharone7
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I don’t mind a slow pace in general—in a certain kind of book it usually means a wonderful emotional payoff—but this book really challenged my patience. It was so repetitive that I wondered at times if I was imagining things. (Do we really need to witness a character wonder on 15 separate occasions, in excruciating detail each time, what another character meant when they said a particular thing? I submit we do not.) I liked the premise but by the last third I was so annoyed that the only thing keeping me from throwing it out the window was spite. There was an emotional payoff, but I was too annoyed to appreciate it. It would probably have been amazing if it had been half as long.