I've proclaimed Cloud Atlas to be one of my favourite book, and I stand by this. 
 But Cloud Atlas is also not a book that I can adequately or articulately put into any kind of review. 
 So bare with me, as I'm going to attempt to say something about this. Cloud Atlas is for me, one of the books that haunts me after I've completed it: making me think back and go back to the book and read certain passage again and again. Seeing connections here and there that I initially didn't notice, I can't even pinpoint to anything specific that made it resonate with me so deeply. I will admit that it was a challenge to read, it was so tough to get into. I definitely needed perserverance to get through it, but in the end it was very rewarding to have completed it. It was so good.