Thank you NetGalley and the publisher, Simon and Schuster for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This book was bloody fantastic! If you are a fan of the podcast you’ll love this prequel and insight into the characters. But it’s also a great read even if you’ve never listened to the podcast. The characters are engaging and the story holds well as a unique work.

Thank you NetGalley, Cote Smith and Simon & Schuster Canada for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.

Seventeen-year old Lia’s life is rocked when she finds out that the entire populations of the small research facility in Limetown have disappeared without a trace. Among the missing is her uncle, Emile Haddock. It’s all everyone can talk about, except Lia’s family, the refuse to discuss anything that has to do with it. With Lia wanting to be a journalist, she delves into her own investigation and discovers clues about Emile’s past that lead to a secret that you never imagined.
I wasn’t sure what exactly to think as I have never heard the podcast, but the premise sounded interesting enough for me to want to give it a try. I found it interesting that the book was split up into chapters from Lia’s perspective now and Emile’s perspective from what was happening before Limetown. I was a bit surprised to find out that the book has “special” people in it that others want to study to find a way to open up the brains of the rest of us. I found Emile’s story line much more interesting to me because I liked seeing what was going on back then before Limetown started and the craziness he had to endure. Lia’s story is also interesting, but I found it more choppy and I didn’t enjoy the character very much overall.

I found most of the timeline in the past a little far fetched for me, but it was still interesting and made me wonder what was going to happen in Lia’s timeline. This book to me was a bit of science fiction almost, but in a thriller way. I found that I had to continue to read on because it was getting intense and I needed to know what was going on and it was so cryptic that I didn’t even have a good guess about what was going to happen. I usually don’t like books that end with a cliffhanger, but it works for this book because now I just want to go and listen to the podcast and see what happens next.

Pick it up November 13th!