![]() ![]() The real genius of the novel is how Mitchell grounds this fantastical, metaphysical, centuries-long war in very human stories. ![]() The four stories in between, all as fascinating and entertaining as Holly's first-person story, expand on the overall narrative - which, and this is going to sound crazy, is about two factions of immortal beings whose souls can occupy human forms, but who are at war with each other, a classic good vs. She herself (in first person) tells us the first (in 1984, she's a 16-year-old girl running away from home in a small town in England) and the last (in 2043, as a 75-year-old living in the Irish countryside as the world collapses). ![]() So the novel is actually six interconnected stories with one central character - Holly Sykes - as the anchor. In total, The Bone Clocks is just about the bravest, smartest, most entertaining, most inventive, and most fun to read novel I've put into my brain in a very long time. It's a great companion piece to Mitchell's most famous novel Cloud Atlas, but it's also a nod to Mitchell's other novels (characters from Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet pop up again), as well as ground-breaking films like The Matrix and Inception. ![]()
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