I've been reading more sci-fi and post-apocalyptic fiction both because I enjoy it and also because Molly enjoys it, which gives us something that we can read together. My friend Elliot read this one over the course of a couple of days and lent it to me before it was due back to the library. Molly described it as having a lot of soap-opera plot elements, which is legit, but it's also imaginative and entertaining in ways that harder sci-fi isn't. There's opioid addiction, teleportation, a race to find a cure for a strange neurological disease (which killed the protagonist's husband and may kill her daughter if she doesn't hurry!), and so much more. It's fun, and it is just classy enough to avoid a guilty-pleasure label.
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