Thoughts on The Bone Clocks

I hesitate to call this a book review, so I will just characterize it as my thoughts after reading David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks. This is one of the books on my MFA reading list, but I won't actually be doing a close reading essay on this book. It did help me consider David Mitchell's strengths and weakness. That said, if you haven't read The Bone Clocks, but you do plan to read it and don't want the story spoiled, you may want to skip this post.

The only other book that I have read of Mitchell's is Cloud Atlas (and I will probably get heat for this, but I actually enjoyed the movie better - that is an entirely different conversation however). I know that Mitchell writes all of his novels in the same world with characters appearing in multiple novels. I do enjoy his writing enough to probably fill in with the other books that I haven't read yet. Additionally, the timeline seems to coincide between novels as well. For instance, at the end of The Bone Clocks, Marinus discusses the fac…