Book Review of "Children of Time"

“Children of Time” is an insanely imaginative and brilliantly crafted piece of writing! This may sound like a cliche but reading this book is akin to watching an artist paint a masterpiece. It might seem slow at the start, might seem to meander a bit but by the time the last brush stroke is done, the whole picture; the entire story comes alive and leaves you awestruck. This is not your typical SciFi and you should probably steer clear of it if you are looking for aliens and spaceships and such. What the writer Adrian Tchaikovsky has achieved here is exceptional and deserves 5 stars. I am going to leave here with, what was to me, one of the best lines from the book:

“If there had been some tiny bead present in the brain of all humans, that had told each other, ‘hey, they are all like you’; that had drawn some thin silk thread of empathy, person to person, in a planet-wide net—what might then have happened? Would there have been the same wars, massacres, persecutions, and crusades?”