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I finished The ministry of Time against all odds, and this was so terrible? And confusing? And infuriating?
Explaining the book in a coherent fashion fails because any time travelling story is mind bending, but also because this is so needlessly confusing. And the narrator made me so uncomfortable.
And the writing. What was happening there? And on top of metaphors, and never-ending, confusing, nonsensical similes.