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A review by hank
Arcadia by Iain Pears
4.0
That took a while! Almost 2 months to read, part of that was because I was distracted by summer stuff, part of it was that the book wasn't super compelling. I think Arcadia needs to be read in a shorter time frame, I could never really get a grasp on what was going on and which characters were important until the very end. The story lines were also not particularly compelling except, strangely, the Anterwold one.
3.5 stars rounded up, it was a fairly new take on time travel and I suspect the book is better on the second reading, I just don't ever tend to do that. The complexity of the time lines is enormous which was partly fun and partly not. Rosie was the only character I found myself engaging with because of that.
Arcadia probably should have been a trilogy, there was a massive amount, stuffed into one book and I think it suffered because of it. Dystopia, Utopia and alternate history all crammed into one story and I really needed more to get them all fleshed out.
3.5 stars rounded up, it was a fairly new take on time travel and I suspect the book is better on the second reading, I just don't ever tend to do that. The complexity of the time lines is enormous which was partly fun and partly not. Rosie was the only character I found myself engaging with because of that.
Arcadia probably should have been a trilogy, there was a massive amount, stuffed into one book and I think it suffered because of it. Dystopia, Utopia and alternate history all crammed into one story and I really needed more to get them all fleshed out.