Barry is a detective in the NYPD, and he becomes interested in False Memory Syndrome, a sort of quasi-epidemic sweeping the globe wherein people can vividly recall false memories, whole false timelines, in which they live out lives different from their actual ones. Helena is a neuroscientist studying memory in the hopes of saving the memories of Alzheimer's patients before the disease rips them away. This book brings the two of them together for one heck of a ride.
This book rocked me to my core. I don't know that I caught all of what happened--things got very logistics-heavy quite quickly--but the general premise of this book was absolutely terrifying to me. Honestly, I don't know if I'll be reading anything else that Crouch writes, since this one was a little too stimulating for me (I read it in one go, in a few hours, and it's unclear how much sleep I'll be getting tonight). I'm at a bit of a loss, though, as to how to rate it, since it was definitely striking and captivating, though I would be hard-pressed to say that I liked it; so I'm going to go with a middling star rating that may be up for revision later (we'll see).
This book rocked me to my core. I don't know that I caught all of what happened--things got very logistics-heavy quite quickly--but the general premise of this book was absolutely terrifying to me. Honestly, I don't know if I'll be reading anything else that Crouch writes, since this one was a little too stimulating for me (I read it in one go, in a few hours, and it's unclear how much sleep I'll be getting tonight). I'm at a bit of a loss, though, as to how to rate it, since it was definitely striking and captivating, though I would be hard-pressed to say that I liked it; so I'm going to go with a middling star rating that may be up for revision later (we'll see).