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A new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn’t exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world. As her employer grows increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads…
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DNF @ 43%
Thank you so much to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for providing an advanced copy of this. All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
I was really excited to give this author another try after having mixed feeling on Jane Lawrence. I thought that going in with the knowledge of things turning weird and paranormal would make this a favorite horror story. Because I loved the unexplained.
But this was too weird for me.. and I did not understand anything that was happening..
There is SO much technical detail dumped on you in the beginning of this story. I didn't follow any of it (what was she researching? I'm still so confused...). And I can't tell if any of it was actually important to the story.
At the nearly 50% point we were just getting to what was described in the synopsis. It was slow and meandering and overly descriptive and I quickly lost interest in what was happening or why.
02.5 - i was so bored and this was such a let down compared to my love, my favorite the death of jane lawrence. i don't care enough about science and the boring start made it hard to care the second half of the book even tho it got better
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Also this was hands down the worst audio narration I’ve ever heard.
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