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Sea of Tranquility

Written by: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee,Dylan Moore,Arthur Morey,Kirsten Potter
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Publisher's Summary

From the number one best-selling author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted The Glass Hotel and the internationally best-selling Station Eleven comes a new novel of dazzling imagination.

In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveler who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the West Coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a best-selling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel’s dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect. 

Sea of Tranquility is a breathtaking and wondrous examination of the ties that bind us together, by a master storyteller. 

©2022 Emily St. John Mandel (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

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Emily St. Jean Mandel's best

My only complaint about this book is that it was far too short! I could have easily explored this "multiverse" for twice as long. I've read Glass Hotel and Station Eleven and would definitely rank this as my favourite of Emily St. Jean Mandel's. I found the characters all interesting in their own right and enjoyed how their timelines were woven together.

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Great voice acting. Bad writing

The book lacked any emotional appeal to me. Without any emotional involvement there really wasn’t anything to cling to. The sci fi elements were presented in an uninteresting way that suggested the author had only a service level understanding of the concepts that are supposed to make up the backbone of the narrative

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Wonderful

I really enjoyed both the story and the performances. The author does a great job of transporting us to past and future, and I loved the wibbly wobbly times wimey bits.

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Clever Ending

It’s no Station Eleven, but this is still a very interesting book that comes to a satisfying conclusion.

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Very slow

Kept waiting for it to get more exciting or interesting. It didn't. Just a lot of backstory that doesn't really go anywhere

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Slow to start, but weaves an interesting time tale

I picked up the book in a book shop and loved the first section, (but now I want a novel about the remittance man) but it does mean when I finally bought the book it was not what I expected at all. It is a bit like the Film "Matrix", and a bit like "How High we go in the Dark", and two years away from COVID the pandemic mentions were interesting, not irritating (as it would have been reading it 18 months ago)

I did enjoy this enormously. Read both the book and listened to the audio, and the ending explained the curious choice of narrators, so clever

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Dull and disappointing

Expected way more from this story. It jumped around like a bad TV documentary, breaking up story lines in a confusing and pointless way. Character development was weak and settings were two-dimensional at best (for instance, Vancouver Island where I live, was portrayed in a vague, almost off-hand manner). The whole premise of time-travel was dealt with in an unremarkable and logically inconsistent fashion with no exploration of the potentially profound philosophical implications of such a concept. To top it off, the author describes a far-flung future where sexism has not budged one jot. The only good thing I can say about it is that it is short and I felt immense relief when I came to the end.

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so boring

once you start reading you will consider should I quit now or later. Couldn't get very far sorry.

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Great

Great weaving of storylines relevant to our current moment across space and time, with a great conclusion. Better to read The Glass Hotel first as this story follows it. Could have been longer but that was the only downside. Overall great.

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The most boring time travel story ever

Nothing happens, there's no story, no meaning, no relatable characters, no emotion. It just feels like a bunch of words were strung together, or maybe like an AI wrote it.

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A masterpiece

I wondered off and on during the early days of pandemic life, while we created new normals, and new worst fears, how Emily St. John Mandel was experiencing dystopia. And here we see into her heart as she weaves compelling, deeply human characters through time and place. I feel like I watched this as a movie, and met them all in a cafe. Knew of them from stories, fell in love with them and was them. This beautiful story, run through with tragic themes, brings memories peace. It has redefined 5 stars for me. It has reshaped my last 2 1/2 years.

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