![]() ![]() Of the two books ( Blackout and All Clear), I far preferred Blackout. More than anything, Willis’ books frustrate me: there is so much there, so many ideas that could progress in so many interesting ways, and yet she never quite elevates her material to where it needs to go. ![]() The books are competently if unexcitingly written with characters who tend towards the obnoxious (being all-knowing historians who like to frequently – far too frequently – reference their detailed knowledge of wartime England) but inoffensive, with plots that seem promising but which never deliver. ![]() If they were simply bad I think I would have an easier time reviewing them but there’s nothing glaringly awful in them. After years of hearing how great her books were and of being intrigued by her time-travelling historians I finally started reading them, beginning earlier this year with To Say Nothing of the Dog and continuing on earlier this month with Blackout and All Clear, her two-volume World War II saga published last year. It is my sad duty to inform everyone that I am officially not a Connie Willis fan, a revelation that is quite a disappointment to me. ![]()
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