> Since the books span many centuries, characters come and go and are mostly not very fleshed out or interesting. Depending on how they manage it, this might n

> Since the books span many centuries, characters come and go and are mostly not very fleshed out or interesting. Depending on how they manage it, this might not be all that much of an obstacle. Cloud Atlas faced the same problem, but I thought that their use of an ensemble cast to tell a story that spanned the several centuries worked out just fine.