The Ministry of Time

 

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, 352 pages

If Candace Bushnell wrote a romance book about time travel, it would look something like this. I don't say this often, but I really hated this book. I won't spoil any endings here, but I found the writing lazy, the plot disjointed and ludicrous--it's generally just overmarketed as some kind of unique time travel/spy novel when it's really nothing of the sort--it's just a relationship book. Nothing happens for about 200 pages and then all of a sudden you realize you're in some kind of romance novel that still takes forever to wrap up. And then, after all that time, there's a threshold the author crosses and everything happens all at once in about the last third of the book--all the plot and characters and exposition go tumbling downhill to it's inevitable and boring conclusion.