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140 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2018
It’s like there’s a crater in her brain, with curling, cauterized edges, which has obliterated her memories. She probably can’t get them back, burned things don’t get unburned, but she would like to know what caused the impact.The concern and dread build nicely through this story, and I enjoyed the setting in the Netherlands, a rarity in speculative fiction (Bo Balder is a Dutch author). But the answer to the key question, when it finally came, was vague and unsatisfying, and left me with the feeling that I’d read something like it before. If I could only remember where …