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I really enjoyed Freeman’s Infinite. It stood out well above the usual thriller noise. So I remembered the name and made sure to look out for his future releases and when this came to Netgalley, I requested it right away.
And sure enough, Freeman does a good job again. Throwing in a slight science fiction premise (or more like an advanced science premise) really elevates what otherwise would have been yet another all-in-the-family sort of tale of love and revenge.
The book begins on a 4th of July. Some people wave flags and some people get wasted…and so people die. The protagonist is of the latter variety, She tops off a series of sh*tty life events with some booze and some coke and dies. Once she’s revived, she finds she is no longer alone in her mind. There’s another conscience, another person, another set of memories.
So she crosses the country from Vegas to the East Coast and begins to put her allegedly genius level IQ to the test by trying to sort out what’s going on with her.
She meets man after man who desire her…or the woman inside her. And woman after woman who have murkier intentions.
And yes, in some respects it is a very prototypical thriller, meaning that, for instance, all the women are model-gorgeous…and only one of them is actually a model.
Also, here’s a small thing…recently a hyperwoke millennial pal of mine told me that it is now considered racism when African-American characters’ skin is compared to food in writing. Is that true? Cause if so, the author is certainly guilty. Every single dark-skinned character is described as something delicious. Mocha or chocolate. I mean, seriously. Is it offensive or fetishizing or just plain descriptive? Weigh in in the comments below, please. The inquiring minds want to know.
Anyway, back to the book…the book is fun. Fun enough to rise above its clichés and fun enough to twist what might have bene a pretty plain plot into something genuinely unpredictable so that the prerequisite plot twist in the end is actually mostly a surprise.
I enjoyed reading it and it went by very quickly for all its bulk. Great pacing, great dynamics, great energy. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.

At a rooftop party in Las Vegas Hallie Evers dies,but hours later she wakes up,she's alive.She can't find the doctor who revived her.She feels different her head is crowded and nothing is familiar to her at all.
Mental illness runs in her family,her mother died suffering from delusions.
Hallies dreams are not her own her memories are someone elses.
How can she tell what's real?
As she tries to find out the truth things take a sinster turn.
Brian Freeman is one of my favourite authors and this book did not dissapoint,very different his other novels but just as good.
Recommended.
Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas and Mercer for the ARC.

Hallie, who writes copy for medical websites, had issues before. Her mom's suicide led to issues she dealt with by using drugs, attempting suicide, and by purging. Just when things couldn't get worse, they DO. She is resuscitated when her heart stops, and as she recovers, she is seeing the life of another in her "crowded" mind. Her own past plus Skye's past now intertwine leading to a unique schizophrenia. Unraveling the mystery includes murder attempts medical espionage, tangled relationships, and traveling from home in Las Vegas to Boston. Well written, as always by a master storyteller.

Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas and Mercer for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Hallie Evers has just had one of the worst days of her life and after partying a little too hard, her heart stops and she "dies". But she is revived by a doctor who happens to be at the same party. The trouble is, now she is having vivid memories that aren't hers and it seems there are people following her that want to harm her.
Brian Freeman is in my top 5 favorite authors. I particularly love the Stride series. He has been venturing into some new territory with his non-Stride novels and I am always on the fence about whether I want to read them, because I do not like anything that ventures anywhere close to sci-fi, or things that could not happen in real life. In fact, I never would have read this book if it was written by someone else. So, I am glad it was written by this author, otherwise I would have missed out. I really enjoyed this book and it didn't go so far outside the realm of possibility to turn me off. There were 2 mysteries, what happened to Hallie, which was answered midway through and then what was happening in the memories she was having, which was an intriguing mystery. I thought it was great.

Hallie Evers is dead. She died at a wild party in Las Vegas. Some time later, she comes to in the hospital , where she has obviously been revived. Strangely there is no sign of the doctor who saved her life, but even more worrying, Hallie has memories of people she has never known and places she she has never visited. Terrified and confused, she sets out to find the places that are so vividly alive in her mind. Has she been reincarnated? How can she have another person’s memories along with her own? And is the murder she recalls real? I enjoyed this story about the possibility of soul transference, cellular memory and a host of other tantalizing possibilities

This book is a slow burner, but once the action begins, I started liking it. The audiobook version will be even better. If you're looking for a more immersive experience, I'd suggest you to get the audiobook. A good afternoon read it was. Overall a good read.