Book Review: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

I liked it but I didn't love it.

Of course, this makes All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel an improvement over 4321 so I consider this a win.



It's a little confusing to start, or rather it's supposed to be, but it seemed more like a scatter-brained narrator than a confusing introduction, but that's just me. Of course, if I knew at the beginning what I discovered at chapter 43, I could have saved myself a lot of time. In fact, I was so pleased with chapter 43 that I ended up skipping ahead in search of another chapter just like it. This brought me to chapter 55 which, like chapter 43, served as a recap of the previous chapters and made the book SO much better in my opinion.

Why?

Because the first 42 chapters were not that exciting to me. Frankly, I don't feel like the book engaged me until somewhere after chapter 60 but then it definitely took off. Think The Butterfly Effect merged with The Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library). I actually enjoyed the second half or maybe the last third of the book. It ended a little abruptly given the amount of effort put into the build up, but that's a minor complaint.

In short, All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel is a worthwhile read for a rainy afternoon. Especially if you skip chapters one through 42 and then chapters 44 through 54. But....that's just my advice on the matter.

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Next up: The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine