Gwen :)’s Reviews > The Ministry of Time > Status Update

everyone’s gay and in love with each other!! it’s like a love quadrangle

i will say the worldbuilding of the ministry and their ‘enemies’ is a bit vague to the point of confusion

“This, I learned, was how the Ministry received the power of time-travel. Not through invention but through the fine British tradition of finders keepers.”

“Oh, England, England! The thing you do best is tell a story about yourself. Graham Gore went to the Arctic believing that a noble death is possible because of all those stories and then he became a story. Oh, England, you wanted to make stories out of me.”

“When I look back at myself on the bridge year, I see that I thought I was doing something constructive, escaping exploitation by becoming exceptional. In fact, what I was doing was squeezing my eyes shut and singing la la la at the gathering darkness, as if the gathering darkness cared that I couldn't see it.”

not the unreliable narrator who is lowkey a bad person… having yellowface flashbacks

the concept of these time travelers consisting of a lesbian, a gay or bisexual man, and another vaguely queer man is amazing. 10/10

bro if she falls in love with the commander….

“Anyone who has ever watched a film with time-travel, or read a book with time-travel, or dissociated on a delayed public transport vehicle by considering the concept of time-travel, will know that the moment you start to think about the physics of it, you are in a crock of shit.
How does it work? How can it work? […] I'm here to tell you: don't worry about it.”