Review of The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle

So I can’t tell whether I found this book tedious and overly lengthy and boring because it was tedious and overly lengthy and boring or because the structure of being tedious and lengthy and boring is supposed to mimic the tedium, length, and boredom the characters themselves feel, being trapped inside a closed-bubble ecosystem off in the Arizona desert for two years. It felt like it took me two years to read the book (really, it took a week), but was that the point? I don’t know. We’re given three annoying POV characters and two dull years of their lives and it just draaaaaaaaaggggs on. Then we get to the end and everyone is exactly the same as at the beginning so what was the point of this week I spent reading this book? I kept at it because I thought something, anything, meaningful would happen.

Nope.

Nothing.

Terranauts are boring. I guess that’s what I took away from this.

The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle went on sale October 20, 2016.

I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.