Lucas Stoffel

Children of Time Book Review: Adrian Tchaikovsky wrote a novel about the evolution of intelligent spiders, and he made me root for them harder than I root for most human characters in fiction. That sentence sounds absurd. The book earns it completely.

I read this book in Bali, riding a motorbike down the same roads Elizabeth Gilbert made famous, and the tropical world she writes about in this novel was literally surrounding me — the humidity, the density of green, the way plants take over everything if you let them. It was the perfect place to fall into this book, and I fell hard. Book Review