
Image © Hodder & Stoughton / the cover artist.
“Cloud Atlas” is a difficult book to write about. Rather than being a single continuous novel, it’s more like six short stories wrapped up inside each other like a Russian doll. As such, I will be skimming quite a bit so that I don’t bore you to death before this review is over.
I can sum it up in three words, though: this book sucks.