All Clear

Connie Willis
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Satisfying Conclusion, but Not as Fun as the First Half

Allie
7/22/2011
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The second half of Blackout/All Clear jumps right back into the story with very little introduction. The historical aspects are just as interesting as Blackout, but the historians unfortunately spend much more time with each other and much less with the people contemporary to WWII. The colorful, interesting minor characters therefore get much less attention than the three similar-minded protagonists. This led to a significant increase of repetition in the story, which was only slightly present in Blackout. I don't think I really needed to read quite so many scenes of the protagonists lying to each other, just barely missing people, checking the drop, fretting about the retrieval team, and writing coded personal ads. Altogether, though, All Clear gave a very satisfying conclusion to the story begun in Blackout.

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