

Crouch’s exploration of reality and what would realistically happen with new technology is really well done. They’re not in the same place or in the same year but we quickly discovered how interlinked their stories would be. The first half of the book is told from two view points, Helena and Barry. Maybe the later half of a global pandemic wasn’t the best time for this? But the more we got into it and realized what FMS was and what was really going on, the more we were sucked in. Having not read the summary, I thought this was going to be about a contagious disease early on and I wondered what I’d stumbled into. Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy-before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos. In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth-and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery.

It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery-and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Other books by Crouch reviewed on this blog:Īt first, it looks like a disease.
