One of my problems with Blackout was how unbelievably frequently Connie Willis felt she had to hit the same beats in particular, the fact that the historians knew things the contemps didn’t know. But there wasn’t enough of Colin, and this brings me to complaints. But Polly and Sir Godfrey, Eileen and the Hodbins, those were real relationships and I cared what happened to them in the context of those relationships. I wished we’d seen more of Michael’s relationships at Bletchley Park, as these felt like all plot and no character work. Whenever Willis gave her characters a stake in the contemps, the book took a turn for the better. I could have spent every minute with Sir Godfrey and the Hodbins. Though the central characters aren’t always hugely interesting, many of the secondary characters are. All Clear picks up right where Blackout left off, and we’re off and running.įirst, the good stuff. They have begun to fear that they have accidentally changed history, that England will lose the war because of changes they inadvertently made while time traveling. Their drops did not open to return them to Oxford, and their Oxford retrieval teams never showed up. Eileen, Polly, and Mike, three Oxford historians from the future, are trapped in London in World War II. Both these things are true: I liked and felt satisfied with All Clear, the second of two books about time-traveling Oxford historians who get stuck in Britain in World War II and, it is perfectly possible I will never read another book by Connis Willis.īlackout left us on a cliffhanger.
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