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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Book Review

The Gone World 
By Tom Sweterlitsch (2018)

365 pages (kindle digital edition) 
Genres : Science Fiction,Thriller, Time Travel, Dystopian Fiction 

Rating : 4/5 😍😋



Edit : Writing this review I understood how incredibly complex this story is .. to be explained in a few short sentences .. making for an abridged version of the plot. This is a mixture of both science fiction (involving time travel, space travel) and crime thriller.  Not a typical crime detective story or science fiction, this story has got a 'feel' to it .. that felt very much like a "soul". The character development is good - especially the main character. We get to see how immensely stubborn and iron willed the main character Shannon can be in the face of repeated crisis not leaving the consequences to chance. 

Its an amazing portrayal of an alternative reality where time and space travel is authorized for agents of military who leverage it for solving criminal cases. Shannon Moss is an agent of the CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) and collaborates with the FBI when a family of an ex military agent gets murdered and his daughter goes missing in 1997. As Shannon hops on board a space vehicle to reach to future time in 2015 to find answers and hidden secrets to solve her case, little does she know that she is going to be opening a pandora's box which would ultimately lead to the complete destruction of humanity and earth as we know it. As her investigation leads her to the murderer .. she realizes that his intentions are not selfish or belligerent .. but he only is trying to undo a mistake his crew has commited and save the world .. but will she team up with him and save the world or find her own way of doing it? 

She is an incredibly strong woman despite being handicapped. The looming threat of earth being subjected to the exposure of a second sun called Terminus -- which would lead to the death of everyone and everything  -- gets nearer and nearer in time as the space travel goes on unrestricted. How to push this event far away in time? How to totally make it one of the possibilities of future rather than a certainity? What has triggered this event in the first place? Interesting view points and intriguing read. A gripping thriller. 😀🤗


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