THE MINISTRY OF TIME
By Kaliane Bradley

After being promoted in the Ministry to the role of “bridge”, our unnamed British-Cambodian civil servant narrator finds herself tasked with the duty to aid in the adjustment of a time traveling refugee.

Graham Gore, a Commander in the Royal Navy in his time (which happened to be around 1847), finds the future to be curious, if not, at times, wholly offensive.

This sci-fi romance is a bit unlike books I tend to gravitate towards, but I found it difficult to put down. The narrative is equal parts charming and thoughtful, cleverly woven with humor and intellect, with meditations on living in today’s age as a person of mixed race and playful thought-experiments on what it really means to “time travel”.

If you’re looking for a light read into another timeline, or, if you’re a horror fanatic like myself and need a palate cleanser between terrors, try this one on for size.

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