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A review by lenaf
Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds by Peter Adam Salomon
5.0
What starts out as a very stream-of consciousness style slowly pieces together as the story progresses. You get snippets of details as each person explores memories. You get insight, piece by piece, into what happened that led to this bizarre state of existence. You start to understand the mistakes, the terrible decisions, the consequences of being so very intelligent and untouchable.
After reading this book, I've started to keep an eye out for any of Peter's other work because I binged this in two days. Yes, it's a novella so it's shorter than a novel, but the sun had gone down and I was sitting in the dark reading on my phone because I just couldn't put it down and hadn't noticed it was nighttime. I don't usually do that, I can disconnect and pull away, but this book sucked me in entirely. Maybe it's because it taps into psychology and cognitive science, two fields that I adore and almost went into in college. Maybe it's because it explores teen abuse and neglect from highly intelligent individuals, something I haven't seen much in YA fiction. Either way, I devoured this book.
This book is an intense, terrifying foray into a dark future where two survivors must piece together the end of the world through the jumbled memories of six abused teens. A wonderful read that I couldn't put down by a writer who understands the biological, technological, and research worlds, this is one science fiction thrill ride you won't want to miss! If you enjoy exploring cognitive science, AI technology, biological weapons, and a mystery of global proportions, this is definitely the book for you!
After reading this book, I've started to keep an eye out for any of Peter's other work because I binged this in two days. Yes, it's a novella so it's shorter than a novel, but the sun had gone down and I was sitting in the dark reading on my phone because I just couldn't put it down and hadn't noticed it was nighttime. I don't usually do that, I can disconnect and pull away, but this book sucked me in entirely. Maybe it's because it taps into psychology and cognitive science, two fields that I adore and almost went into in college. Maybe it's because it explores teen abuse and neglect from highly intelligent individuals, something I haven't seen much in YA fiction. Either way, I devoured this book.
This book is an intense, terrifying foray into a dark future where two survivors must piece together the end of the world through the jumbled memories of six abused teens. A wonderful read that I couldn't put down by a writer who understands the biological, technological, and research worlds, this is one science fiction thrill ride you won't want to miss! If you enjoy exploring cognitive science, AI technology, biological weapons, and a mystery of global proportions, this is definitely the book for you!