Member Reviews
Kelly H, Reviewer
4.5 stars
Wow. That was an emotional roller coaster that I wasn’t sure was going to end up back at the station. Or what station if it doesn’t stop there. The love between Mark and Shane was palpable and the pain felt real and because of that, the story was difficult to read.
Around the halfway point, it started getting really hard and harder and harder. The emotions were expressed so well, so blatantly, I felt them in my core and it was hard not to go to the back of the book and find out how it ended. I didn’t know where the story would finally land until the last couple of pages. Predictable this was not.
I liked the ending although not everything was explained. I had a lot of questions like <spoiler>How dissonance worked, how two people discovered they had it, how others knew—they seemed to—about two people having it, how Mark escaped, Alex’s dissonance, etc. </spoiler>
The story was really good and as I said, kept me guessing until the end. I want to read more by this author but I have to be in the right emotional place to do so.
A couple of general comments:
There’s a misunderstanding about PTSD. You don’t become catatonic. You might freeze and not be able to function, but you know where you are and your mind is working furiously. I can see someone becoming permanently catatonic to escape but not intermittently like the multiple people in this story do.
There were some things that felt like anachronisms like Cherry “MyDew” in a can that pops open, King size beds, no cure for the common cold or a fever, until I realized that maybe this was the author’s way of showing that these people aren’t so different than we are no matter how far they are in the future. I think it actually grounded the story.
I received a copy of this ebook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.
