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Mar 13, 2019InnerLibrarian rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This is one of the worst books I've ever tried to read. I was prepared to suspend my disbelief and enjoy a light sci-fi novel of time travel, cloning, and mammoths (who doesn't like a good mammoth story), but I made it to page 125 and had to quit before I sacrificed too much of the precious time I have left on this Earth. I don't have issue with the plot--it is science fiction, after all, and many implausible things have occurred in the spin of a good yarn--but the writing was awful and the characters ridiculous. Bad one-liners, cartoonish villains, and protagonists with the emotional appeal of oatmeal create a perfect storm of awful literature. Highlights included American jingoism and absurd, sexist lines "written" by a female character. I will be returning this book to the library before my IQ decreases further and borrowing some Kazuo Ishiguro instead. Also: Varley obviously didn't consult a map before he wrote this, because Nunavut is a territory, not a province. Sheesh!