Freya’s Reviews > The Ministry of Time > Status Update

Ok I didn’t see it coming, but jasper and I recognized many of the pieces. The finger print, the emphasis on Adela’s face weirdness. A lot just happened and I’m confused. One more chapter to go.

I’ve completely forgotten to update my progress the last number of times I’ve read. After quite a slow burn, we’ve finally arrived at our main characters discovering each other’s mutual feelings. But these small covert hints of what is about to happen to separate Gore from our narrator is very curious.

Maybe it’s because it’s late and my reading comprehension isn’t as sharp right now, but I’m feeling a bit lost. Like the book is expecting me to fill in certain blanks and there’s just too many of them to fully understand what’s happening. But not enough for me to be utterly confused. The main character feels a bit unknowable.

Things are starting to get strange. Which I am into. The ministry is definitely doing some fucked up shit. We have a lesbian character and mention of homosexual behaviors, happy pride month.

I’m falling a bit behind on our reading schedule. I’ll have to read 50 pages tomorrow. I think that our main character should have a crush on the other Bridge, Simellia. And I think Gore and the other expat who he went out with should be together. Make it all gay! It’s pride month!

So Graham should have known that his crew died. But he forgot. I wonder how the expats from even further back in time are doing.

For some reason I thought this would be much more sci-fi-y. I didn’t notice in the summary and in the blurbs on the back that this is a romance story. I hope there’s more to it than that. Straight romance is just kinda cringe to me unless done really well. I like the writing, there have been many words I’d never heard before and had to look up