A review by jcargabr
We by Michael Landweber

4.0

Quick light read with some thought-provoking ideas under the surface. What I thought the author did extremely well was capture the voice of both a 40year old world weary and shattered man and his still forming 7yo self. Many narratives set up the trope of if you could go back in time could you change the future, but the author here twists the idea so that you only go back into the mind of your own self - and instead of being a teenager or someone with at least an inkling that something is out of place - you go into the mind of yourself as a seven year old. Theauthor keeps a breakneck pace as he places his narrator in a perilous situation and the audience is kept guessing regarding whether anyone, including the child is going to make it to the end of the book alive. Under the surface of this thriller, however, the author does an admirable job playing with ideas of how we construct our past when not only are our memories imperfect, but we view the past through the eyes of an innocent child who will only see and remember certain things and not others. I highly recommend this book.