A review by looreads
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
4.0
4.5*
I really enjoyed this novel but the dual timeline really made it drag on. I was hooked from the first page with Nao's timeline but every time it was Ruth's POV I would get bored and put the book down and had a hard time picking back up, especially in the beginning where all Ruth was doing was reacting to what we already read in Nao's diary. It wasn't until past the halfway point that I become more interested in Ruth's timeline. While reading part of me wished that this story was only from Nao's POV but now that I had finished the novel I realized that Ruth's POV did add some intrigue to the story and made it what it is even if it dragged at first.
I really enjoyed this novel but the dual timeline really made it drag on. I was hooked from the first page with Nao's timeline but every time it was Ruth's POV I would get bored and put the book down and had a hard time picking back up, especially in the beginning where all Ruth was doing was reacting to what we already read in Nao's diary. It wasn't until past the halfway point that I become more interested in Ruth's timeline. While reading part of me wished that this story was only from Nao's POV but now that I had finished the novel I realized that Ruth's POV did add some intrigue to the story and made it what it is even if it dragged at first.