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“A surprising page-turner...Compelling. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review), Debut of the Month An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian. After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences a deadly incident in deep space and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her dead. Miraculously—and mysteriously—she survived, but with little memory of what happened. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone changed her, and as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected and even, at times, deep rage toward her family and colleagues. There are periods of time she can’t account for, too, and she begins waking up in increasingly strange and worrisome locations, like restricted areas of NASA. Suddenly she’s questioning everything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and now, what’s happening to her back on Earth. Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.
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This book was chosen by a bookclub I follow. I wasn't really sure if I would like it, but I got the book, read the first page....and seemed to loose time. When I became aware of my surroundings it was late at night and I had finished the book!
I would seek counselling but I'm sure they'd just tell me that it's a normal reaction...
A darn good book, and joking aside - yes I read it all.
I loved the first 200 pages of this book. It was well-paced with great characters and a brutal look at PTSD. In some ways, it reminded me of Stephen King's “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.” In that book, the mundane story is more interesting than the monster. In this one, the actual struggles of Catherine are even more engaging than the alien subplot for a long time.
Which made it much more disappointing when the book approached the last third, and the ending was just devastatingly dull. Not to mention, there's a ham-fisted love plot that is supremely uninteresting. This book had a lot more potential than it ended up delivering on for me.
An intriguing debut novel. Looking forward to reading more from Ms. Nichols.