Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book
Author: Connie Willis
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on + 1568 more book reviews


For Kirvin, preparing for on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in human history was as simple as receiving innoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be retrieved
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.
This book kept me up all night---I HAD to find out what was coming next! Great writing. Believable characters. More plot twists than a pretzel factory.