helenid 's review for:

Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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A clever sci-fi that challenges our perception of memory.

If one could travel back to a memory, could one tweak it to change the present? Are one's memories accurate? Does distance cloud the memory or emotion? Was it ever an exact memory of an incident to begin with?

Maggie, an octogenarian, discovers that her husband's Alzheimer's may not be natural and that someone is deliberately removing his memories. A solution presents itself. Hassan can send Maggie into Stanley's memories and promises that they can reverse the memory loss and also save mankind...

Told in two timelines: Maggie flits about through various points of Stanley's life while Stanley relives his life chronologically. The science can be quite detailed and with the flitting about there is a need to concentrate. Due to life, I took a month off this book at around the 33% mark and found it quite difficult to work out what was happening when stepping back in. 

The last section positively zoomed by and the tension really ramps up.... I can't really describe why and how without providing spoilers. 

Would I read it again? Quite possibly, but without a gap! 

Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins for an e-arc.