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Observer by Nancy Kress, Robert Lanza
2.0
Caroline "Caro" Soames-Watkins is a talented neurosurgeon and after an accusation of sexual assault against another respected surgeon, she finds herself jobless, maxed out on her credit cards, and desperate to continue to support her sister, a single mother with two young daughters, one of whom is severely disabled.
Meanwhile, in the Caymans, Noble prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, Caro's great uncle, has set up a research centre which delves into esoteric research into consciousness, time, reality, and immortality.
Sam extends Caro a job offer when he needs a neurosurgeon and after hesitation as she has never met the man, Caro accepts, and discovers that the research is soon to test the hypothesis of multiverses, which ties into Sam's search for immortality, which is particularly pertinent to him as he's in late stage cancer.
Soon it becomes clear that someone has leaked the proprietary research when the outside world collides with the secrecy of the research compound.
So, basically, I did not enjoy this book. While I initially found the characters interesting, pretty soon the book was turned into a long description of one of the author's hypotheses, "the primacy of the observer" where nothing exists until someone observes it. This idea extends to the objects around us, and even to the universe itself.
Just as the book started to get interesting because of the character interactions, I just lost interest thanks to all the physics exposition and the story dragged itself to its not very interesting end.
Thank you to Netgalley and to The Story Plant for this ARC in exchange for my review.
Meanwhile, in the Caymans, Noble prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, Caro's great uncle, has set up a research centre which delves into esoteric research into consciousness, time, reality, and immortality.
Sam extends Caro a job offer when he needs a neurosurgeon and after hesitation as she has never met the man, Caro accepts, and discovers that the research is soon to test the hypothesis of multiverses, which ties into Sam's search for immortality, which is particularly pertinent to him as he's in late stage cancer.
Soon it becomes clear that someone has leaked the proprietary research when the outside world collides with the secrecy of the research compound.
So, basically, I did not enjoy this book. While I initially found the characters interesting, pretty soon the book was turned into a long description of one of the author's hypotheses, "the primacy of the observer" where nothing exists until someone observes it. This idea extends to the objects around us, and even to the universe itself.
Just as the book started to get interesting because of the character interactions, I just lost interest thanks to all the physics exposition and the story dragged itself to its not very interesting end.
Thank you to Netgalley and to The Story Plant for this ARC in exchange for my review.