You will want to read this book again and again I certainly do. You find yourself completely transported to the world of the novel, much as the many characters during the many time periods do, and the big reveal at the end of the book is one of the most well executed twists I've ever seen, one that, should this book be made into a movie, would have you leaving the theater breathless and spellbound. It seamlessly weaves together so many disparate narratives, stories, and characters with light, beautiful prose that will have you absolutely engrossed. I hesitate to use the phrase 'unputdownable' as it seems to me very awkward, but if any book would classify as such, it would be this one. John Mandel unfolds in Sea of Tranquility. Very few authors could weave threads of a dystopian future, a devastating pandemic, time travel, and habitation in dome-covered worlds into a tapestry as dazzling as the one Emily St. Reading this fascinating novel is a little like finding your way through a complex maze and the light shining at the end will catch all but the most perceptive completely off guard. The punishment is being banished to one of the Far Colonies. He is strictly admonished by the Time Institute to do nothing that will alter the course of the future in any way. A young man travels back in time in an attempt to discover the cause of a momentary flash that has appeared to certain people in different centuries.
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