WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSPatricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird, but their lives take different paths...When they meet again as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world-and live up to his reputation-in near-future San Francisco. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, working hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians and secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments.As they attempt to save our future, Laurence and Patricia's shared past pulls them back together. And though they come from different worlds, when they collide, the witch and the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone.
I finished it this time! So I may very well do a full review at some point! The rating has not changed, however.
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Dec 2016
Hello DNF book #3...
I don't know if I'll do a full review of this because I ended up quitting after 200 pages in and then I just started skimming over the last third of the book so I would know what happened.
Occasionally you find books that you just loathed and everyone else seems to enjoy...and sometimes you find books that are the same way but make you question the validity of the opinions of those who recommended it to you. I'll be thinking long and hard about the comparability of these people and if our friendship can survive this grievous error on their part.
2016 is bad enough already without forcing myself to continue to choke down whatever the book was bumbling about trying to feed me.
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