read by Jon Lindstrom and Abby Craden
Unabridged audio (10:47)
2019 Random House
336 pgs.
Adult Fantasy/Sci Fi/Time Travel
Finished 7/1/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.28 - 10,195 ratings
My rating: 4.5
Setting: More-or-less contemporary NYC, Maine, Tucson, and various other places in the world....
First line/s: "Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe Building."
My comments: Whew. This was one helluva ride.
What is memory? How does memory and time and the brain work? Physics? Biology? Science fiction? Blake Crouch has created a story that goes from point A to Point B by traveling through D and L and X and F - all over the place. Time travel and science and two complex and interesting personalities come together over and over ... and over ... again.. Read it!
Goodreads synopsis: Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
Neuroscientist Helena Smith already understands the power of memory. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
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