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Jun 07, 2017DBRL_IdaF rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Similar in structure to Mitchell's book, "Cloud Atlas", "The Bone Clocks" bounces among multiple narrators and time periods. The time frame is not as vast as in "Cloud Atlas", since the story always returns to one character -- Holly Sykes. The story begins with Holly as a 15-year-old runaway. Her inner narrative is extremely well-done and will evoke all sorts of nostalgic awkwardness in anyone who has ever been a teen. As she ponders her life, she thinks about the "radio people", voices she used to hear in her head, and one in particular who visited her in the form of a woman. Quickly enough we realize this is not schizophrenia, but something supernatural. The story proceeds through the years of Holly's life and a fuller picture emerges of an ongoing war between supernatural forces, those who feed on humanity and those who work to protect the potential prey. The supernatural elements are intense and thrilling, but even the parts of the story with everyday life as the rest of us know it were engaging enough to keep me reading.