The continuation of The Time Traveler's Wife
3.5 stars Life Out of Order, indeed. I finished this novel days ago and have been contemplating my review ever since. This is quite a chaotic book, HUGE in scope but not delivering the emotional punch of the much loved The Time Traveller's Wife. I remember vividly the floods of tears whilst reading the first book. It was beautiful, absolutely devastating. Life Out of Order is wholly different and spends much capital on the issues of the day - climate change, government crackdowns and corruption, AI, gender fluidity, pandemics and general end of the world stuff. Though some of that has bearing on the story, itself, much of it just felt added to make this a book for modern sensibilities. Even as I write this I struggle to construct my thoughts. I have changed the star rating from 3 to 4 and back again three times by this point! Life Out of Order is really a book of two halves. The first half is Alba. The second is Oliver. Of the two characters I liked Oliver better. He felt fu...
