So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have.
That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have.
But it never should've turned out like this. And it's all my fault - well, me and to a lesser extent my father.
And, yeah, I guess a little bit Penelope.
In both worlds, she's the love of my life. But only a single version of her can exist.
I have one impossible chance to fix history's greatest mistake and save this broken world.
Except it means saving one Penelope and losing the other forever - and I have absolutely no idea which to choose.
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[So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have]***
(Michael Joseph, 2 March 2017, copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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At times, I really loved this book. I thought big sections of it were well written, absorbing and enjoyable.
But -
I love time travel novels and novels that mess with time and Dystopian fiction. All Our Wrong Todays should have ticked all my boxes.
Except, in the end, it didn't.
The main issue was the narrator Tom/John. I found him irritating, repetitive at times, dull mostly and just plain tedious, repeating the same rubbish over and over as if on the 300 th turn it will suddenly become interesting.
I have major issues with the way women are treated in the novel. They are either killed horribly or raped or have their brains melted / get cancer from time travelling hijinks. The misogyny is a little too much at times.
I also found the novel really confusing towards the end with different realties and versions of characters bleeding into each other until it becomes one hot mess.
