As the book progressed, I found myself wondering how everything was connected together, how each character previously featured was faring (it was really disappointing for instance that we spend an entire section from Ed’s perspective, and then it turns out in the next section he has died off screen year ago), and how all of these questions were going to be answered. Finally, the name of the government that rises up after the “Endarkment” in The Bone Clocks is called “Stability” which fits with Cloud Atlas’s “Unity.”Īll of these little details are fun for readers who have read both books, but I do think that Mitchell took a large departure here in The Bone Clocks, and this may be a criticism that I have seen elsewhere, but the layering of the war between the Anchorites and the Horologists over the life of Holly Sykes and the crumbling of modern society was disorienting. There are other connections as well, such as the nuclear meltdowns that occurred in The Bone Clocks and the radiation poisoning that is happening in Cloud Atlas as a result of similar problems.
For instance, at the end of The Bone Clocks, Marinus discusses the fact that Iceland has a think tank called “Prescience” which directly links to Cloud Atlas‘s final society. Additionally, the timeline seems to coincide between novels as well.
I do enjoy his writing enough to probably fill in with the other books that I haven’t read yet. I know that Mitchell writes all of his novels in the same world with characters appearing in multiple novels. 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).
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. It did help me consider David Mitchell’s strengths and weakness. 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.
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.
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