![]() ![]() Holly Sykes is in every chapter, even if not immediately. It is easy enough to do once you have the swing of things, but at first, it is rather unsettling. You have to work it out when you see what characters are interacting, and when the character reacts in first person to a name. Every new chapter, aside from the first and last, which are in Holly Sykes’ perspective, is in a different point of view every other time, and it is not declared whose point of view you are reading from. The situations dwindle into the frightening, you just want her safe. It gets worse as time goes by, and you end up just hoping for it to get better. ![]() Her life is hard, and taxing and trying and very, very long. It was somewhat scary, to me, at least, and left me wondering if the world could turn out as it was described in the text. You see, clear as day, as the book goes from the past that does not feel too far away to some of us, to the comfort of the present, to what the future could turn out to be. It starts when she’s 15, sometime around the early 1980s, and ends around 2040. ![]() It was a long, long journey of a woman’s life, where every chapter is around ten years. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell left me in love with the present and terrified of the dystopian. ![]()
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