![]() ![]() ![]() Kaaro, our protagonist, is a “sensitive” with a special ability to pick up other people’s thoughts and feelings. ![]() UGH.) So there are a few different timelines in Rosewater, with jumps between them, which is a little bit disorientating in a world that’s already so wild and strange, but each jump takes us to such an intriguing blend of bizarre and mundane that it pulled me in. Just tell me a good story, don’t throw out a bunch of random events that will connect in the last 5 minutes of the book! (Multiple timelines can work for me when there are just two timelines, and the stories are thematically related before they’re connected, like in Lions of Fifth Avenue, The Lost Apothecary, etc., but not always, and this format never works for me in a suspense novel where the big twist is that someone changed their name in the intervening 20 years. Look, I normally do not like books with too many time jumps. ![]() This blend of wild and mundane marks the best scifi for me.įrom there, we take different timelines into Kaaro’s past, discovering his abilities and background, and into the story of the alien dome in the city, and into a bit about Kaaro’s girlfriend, Aminat (the protagonist in her own story), and the regular work and the secret work Kaaro does with his abilities. I was immediately intrigued with Kaaro’s abilities as a sensitive, and how this was both a life-changing, unexplained superpower and a skill that got him a dully reliable corporate bank job. Rosewater takes readers to a fascinating specfic future in Nigeria. ![]()
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