What do you think about books that jump around their timeline sporadically? Like jumping from past to present to further in the past back to present.
My bias rant
I’ve seen this trend in a few books that I really want to like but it just becomes frustrating to try and keep track of what the sequence of events are. I think the biggest disappointment for me was Borrowed Time by Paul Monette. Well written but constantly going on tangents about tangents over 3 different periods in the last 10 years.
Currently reading Never let me go. And it has the same issue for me. I get that it’s supposed to represent the vagueness of childhood memory but they start at 30s then they’re 9ish then 14 then 6 then 14. And I know it’s likley to get worse as she remembers memories from being an older teen. Just stay still for one chapter please.
Flashbacks are grand, and two converging stories work well for me. But it’s not knowing am I further back than I was 3 chapters ago or what?
by _BreadBoy