The author knows his craft. The characters. Shannon is awesomely deep and interesting in her own right. As a thriller it succeeds on all these little life-details across the board, perfectly separate from the SFnal and Horror bits. And most of the novel IS exactly this. I cannot see a universe in which this particular novel doesn't make it ultra-huge. I mean, it has all the elements and high-craft of a super-huge best-seller. As a genre-masher, it's perfectly mainstream and exciting and entirely in line with what people seem to WANT.
And it excels at each part! No half-ass aspect anywhere. Oh, hell yeah. View all 21 comments. Okay, so I finished this last night but had to gather my thoughts before writing this review. Because the book is one of those that you can talk about for hours with others - both while reading it discussing theories, puzzling about where the author will take this and after finishing it to see if it means the same to you as to other readers.
The story centers around an NCIS investigator, who tries to solve several linked murder cases a family. It could be a jealous husband, a robbery, some Okay, so I finished this last night but had to gather my thoughts before writing this review.
It could be a jealous husband, a robbery, some link to the Navy However, what makes this so intriguing and layered is that in this world time travel is possible. Only forward and then back to Terra Firma the actual Here and Now , but still time travel! And space travel too the base for the time travel branch of the Navy is on the Moon.
Anyway, investigators often jump around the time line to find clues and then solve a crime. This gets complicated by the fact that not too long ago, the Navy found out during one of the jumps that the end times an event called Terminus are near But is there a connection between Terminus and the murders? If so, what is it? And will all those efforts to prevent Terminus actually work - can they?!
Yes, one has to pay attention to which period the MC is currently in as well as how the events play out in order to get hints at who some characters are. It's not written in stone, which further complicates things. Nevertheless, although details are different, a few things stay the same, have a necessary common ground so to speak. And all this is just the set-up! The rest of the book slowly unfolds several mysteries that are intricately intertwined; a very intelligent plot with several twists and turns.
A few things were as I had expected them but there was always some detail that played out differently than anticipated and like I usually say: the journey is even more important than the final outcome. The writing style is also very enganging, with a host of unique characters that make you feel the entire range of emotions a human being is capable of feeling. Is anyone ever truly innocent? What defines "the good guys"? Every crime scene was laid out in detail so the reader becomes part of the investigative team while also being appalled or horrified.
You can feel how much you're running out of time so there is NEVER a moment of rest, the story keeps throwing elements at you and you either sink or swim, getting completely drawn into these worlds. The atmosphere, especially in certain surroundings, had me on the edge of my seat or barricading myself with pillows, it was that creepy-good.
I would have never even heard of this if it wasn't for Tyler voluntelling me to this buddy-read and although I will never officially admit it, I owe him because this has become one of my favourite books!
View all 35 comments. Jan 13, Sylvain Neuvel rated it it was amazing. In a word: Whoa! Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys. Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you.
This is cross-genre fiction at its best. View all 3 comments. Feb 19, Blaine rated it really liked it Shelves: , from-library. But the pieces slipped apart. There was no center, no reason. There is no design.
The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires. The Goodreads description sums up the plot of The Gone World pretty well. In a in which space travel and time travel exist, NCIS investigator Shannon Moss is called in to investigate a crime scene involving the family of a man who was believed lost years earlier on a time-traveling mission.
In order to try to solve the case, she travels into the future to learn more quickly what will ultimately be uncovered about the crime. Instead she learns that this crime appears to be connected to the Terminus, an unexplained, Earth-threatening phenomenon that seems to be moving from the far future backwards in time towards the present.
The Gone World is an unusual mashup of a police procedural novel and a time travel story. There are a couple of ideas here about the mechanics of the time travel—that traveling forward sends you into merely one of the infinite possible futures, that other people and objects can be brought back with the traveler—that are interesting and uncommon but also vital for the story being told.
Time travel here is not a very happy process. It all adds up to characters that are often flawed and sad, sometimes just altogether broken, and a book that is more character-driven than a typical time travel story. The scenes involving the Terminus are cinematic yet disorienting at the same time. The story is full of unsettling references to Norse mythology, and the book as a whole has the general vibe of a crime movie like Se7en or a crime tv show like Hannibal.
The Gone World is a more complex, original story than I expected. But the disparate threads are all brought together and resolved very satisfactorily by the end of the story. View 1 comment. Aug 19, Chris Berko rated it it was amazing. This will probably end up being my favorite read of the year. Right from the beginning I could tell I was going to like it. There are certain movies, for me ones like Reservoir Dogs, Boogie Nights, Memento, and Donnie Darko, where I knew before they even ended that they were going to be good, something special and that's what this book is like.
Awesome the whole way through and everything is explained in easy enough terms that if anyone else that I knew tried to explain to me what was going on I This will probably end up being my favorite read of the year. Awesome the whole way through and everything is explained in easy enough terms that if anyone else that I knew tried to explain to me what was going on I would look at them like they were crazy.
This is truly a unique experience and exceeded my expectations in every way. View all 12 comments. If there is one book that I feel inadequate to review, it's The Gone World, because it's so mind-blowing fascinating and sometimes a bit too much for my little brain to take it, but at least I think I grasped most of what was going on in the book. Still, it's hard to review that left you with a feeling of exhausting, wonder and dread. Within two months of her arrival in Virginia Beach, she had time-traveled to the Terminus of humanity and sailed the farthest reaches of the Andromeda Ga If there is one book that I feel inadequate to review, it's The Gone World, because it's so mind-blowing fascinating and sometimes a bit too much for my little brain to take it, but at least I think I grasped most of what was going on in the book.
The book is gorgeously written, and at first, there is a tiny feeling of hope in the story, despite, the gruesome murder, as we learn more about time travel, and all the wonders with it. Then, we learn about Terminus, the end of humanity, an end that is closing in faster and faster, from being a threat generations away to a threat that seems to move faster towards each day and you start to feel that humanity may be doomed that there will be no way to stop Terminus from happening.
The Gone World is a fabulous science fiction book and I felt a craving for more books like this after finishing it. I've always loved time travel, and I loved the idea of going forward to an "if" future to see back to how for instance a case would be solved, and then go back. It's not a new thought, but adding the Terminus, gives the book a sense of doom, a sense that nothing will, in the end, stop the end of humanity.
There is hope, but will Shannon Moss, be able to figure out a way to stop Terminus? Or is she just fighting windmills? I feel that part of me is still processing this book, despite that, I finished the book a couple of days ago. It's such an extraordinary book. I also loved how the author quoted August Strindberg, from the book The Ghost Sonata, as intro quotes for new parts in the book. Love details like that. Read it, or listen to the audiobook. I have a tendency to do both when I have the chance, reading at home listening at work.
Btw that's a great way to get some reading done when you don't have time. Combine listening with reading. It used to be thought that hell was a lack of God, but hell is a lack of death. I want to thank G. Putnam's Sons for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! View all 8 comments. On paper, her job is to investigate any criminal activities involving members of the US Navy or Marine Corps, but behind the scenes, her duties involve a whole lot more, including traveling through time to search for clues in a myriad of possible futures.
The main suspect is a former Navy SEAL, who Moss discovers, with some shock, was part of the Naval Space Command program, stationed aboard a spaceship assumed lost on a classified mission.
Knowing how the stresses of traveling through space and time can push a person to the edge, Moss suspects a deeper connection. But for a while now, the NSC has also been aware of an event known as the Terminus, which will bring about the end of the world and all reality as we know it. The date of the Terminus, however, is not set; every time Moss makes the jump to the future and returns to the present, she receives news that the Terminus has moved up a few more years, drawing ever closer.
This novel is a sci-fi crime thriller with time travel thrown into the mix, so you just know the story will be a little wild. Everything is connected somehow, and as readers, we must keep track of the times Moss travels to the future, how long she stays, the people she talks to, and the information she gleans. These are individuals brought back from the possible futures, doubling someone already living. The point though, is that The Gone World is a story of many different components, which Sweterlitsch juggles like a performer spinning plates on sticks, trying to keep them all up in the air and moving at once.
Really dark. As much as I enjoyed this novel though, there are a few caveats. The story might have lost its hold on me at the end, crushed by the weight of its own ideas and growing a little too unwieldy for the plot structure to support. One can argue all that is secondary to the main story, but I think it would have helped to get at least some background on the secret NSC space program and the history of how time travel was ultimately achieved.
But all in all, I enjoyed this. I liked following our compelling protagonist, watching all the pieces come together and sometimes get torn apart against a backdrop of drama, action, and thrilling suspense. Audiobook Comments: Brittany Pressley was a wonderful narrator, successfully portraying a large cast of characters of different ages, different backgrounds, and different times.
She used accents to great effect for several of them, creating a very immersive experience for the listener. She had a great voice for the book too, perfectly capturing its grim and dark tone.
View all 6 comments. Time travel gone very wrong What if time travel was under the onus of the navy with all its attendant problems which every branch of the service has? If there were a problem, would all the members of the team be able to act honorably? Or would we the people of earth be in deep trouble?
These are the questions asked and answered by this intricate and multifaceted glimpse into a future in which the honor of a few could spell the end of a planet.
View 2 comments. Time travel, multiverse, murder mystery and horror weaved in a story about the end of humanity. TS created an original world, time travel is seen in a new light and the ouroboros cycle is masterfully used as a base theme. I loved the theme, how the events unfolded, the journeys through the multiverse, the worldbuilding.
And I hated the dark atmosphere and the violence of the killings. Too much violence for my taste. It was both a great and an oppressive reading and it felt this way mostly because we experience all first hand through the eyes of Shannon Moss, the main character. Nov 26, Cindy Burnett rated it really liked it Shelves: first-to-read. I am always intrigued with time travel, and I felt that the portion of the book dealing with that was fabulous.
Sweterlitsch clearly researched and thought through that concept and executed it very effectively. I felt I had to be hyperly focused on the book every time I read, or I would lose track of the various story lines. Overall, The Gone World is an interesting and original tale that you must be prepared to devote your entire attention to as you read it and not spread it over too many days.
It is also contains several fairly gory sections. I had to skip over those. Thanks to First to Read for my copy. All opinions are my own. I mention this first because The Gone World, being pretty high-concept sci-fi, is not the kind of novel that would have appeared on my radar otherwise.
Thankfully, Sweterlitsch is a first-rate storyteller, and though the plot is complex I found the narrative fascinating. One can only jump forward in time from their present day or 'terra firma', in Shannon's case — but not beyond the Terminus, 'the moment humanity ceases to be relevant'. Every timeline ends in the Terminus sooner or later, and, ominously, it's getting closer. The futures Shannon and other agents visit are only possibilities and may never happen in reality, but an agent might live for years in an 'IFT' inadmissible future trajectory.
Shannon is tasked with solving the case, and is perturbed when she finds the crime took place in a house that used to belong to her childhood best friend.
The story has been described as 'Inception meets True Detective'; there's more than a little X-Files in there as well not least because Shannon watches the show and is a Scully fan. Boiled down to a sentence, it's a time-travel whodunnit so, Crime Traveller, basically. The 'gone world' the title speaks of is not, as you might think, one of these IFTs, but Shannon's past, in particular the life she shared with her best friend Courtney Gimm before the latter's death at age sixteen.
Touching the wall, she felt like she could tear the present world away and see her friend again, be with her friend as if no time had passed, as if she could step into the old bedroom, the gone world. The device of grounding Shannon's motivation in Courtney's death works really well, both because it humanises the character and because it keeps bringing the story back to a recognisable context.
No matter how outlandish the rest of it becomes, there's always this element of ordinary humanity. It's safe to say The Gone World is outside my reading comfort zone, but this was a gamble that paid off.
It's very well paced, and while everything was explained, I never felt like I was getting bogged down in the intricacies of how it all worked. Turns out, murder mystery and time travel go surprisingly well together. There's one thing I hated about it, though — the epilogue. I hated that epilogue so much I don't even know how to begin talking about it.
Let's pretend it never happened. I received an advance review copy of The Gone World from the publisher through Edelweiss. TinyLetter Twitter Instagram Tumblr View all 9 comments. Nov 15, Dave rated it it was amazing Shelves: edelweiss-books , goodreads-giveaway , penguin-first-to-read , read-have. The Gone World is a breathtaking journey of literary imagination. Beautifully written, deeply layered, and most importantly mind-boggling. Indeed, there are infinite paths into infinite futures which becomes quite maddening.
Richly textured, thought-provoking, detailed, and crazy-making, The Gone World is simply awesome. Many thanks to G. Putnam for a copy of the book for review. At some indeterminate point in Earth's future, two suns will appear in the sky. One of them is a white hole which will cause the Terminus, at which point all human life on Earth will cease or at least cease to be relevant. Part of her work involves going on dangerous time traveling missions to a point in the future in an attempt to determine the cause of the Terminus and to prevent it if possible.
She also investigate At some indeterminate point in Earth's future, two suns will appear in the sky. She also investigates naval-related crimes in her present day which is While investigating a triple homicide and the disappearance of a teenaged girl, Shannon must travel into the future to complete her investigations which are somehow linked to the Terminus. This is a sci fi crime thriller. It involves the quest for immortality, nanotechnology, time travel and a lot of acronyms.
The book is vastly confusing, the science seems sketchy, I have no clue how this time travel was supposed to work and the epilogue caused my head to explode and not in a good way. Nevertheless, I really liked this book. I thought it was really strange, imaginative and well written.
It will make an intriguing movie. This is the second book I've read by this author and I hope to read more.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. Feb 28, Debbie rated it it was ok Shelves: scfi. I have no idea what went on in this book - and I am willing to consider that it's a bit over my head but really I kept reading hoping for it to make some sense but alas I ended the book with a big HUH?
View all 7 comments. Feb 12, S rated it did not like it. I kept reading, waiting for it to get better hoping! She also didn't seem I kept reading, waiting for it to get better hoping! She also didn't seem to follow any rules or regulations, which made for a not-very-plausible law enforcement character.
Or was it just poorly put together? Sometimes the violence made sense, but it was often just gratuitously gross. I understand that we are all less consistent than we believe, but it sure seemed like the same character was a completely different person depending on the timeline she was in.
That as the reasoning behind the twisted forms of torture just made less than no sense to me. There are too many better books with similar elements to waste your time on this one! Try: The Mythago Cycle by Robert Holdstock - These are fantasy rather than SF, but they really get to the whole recursive reality thing in a way that this book never achieved.
Sleeping Giants by by Sylvain Neuvel, if you are looking for similar technology and protagonist , but with more of an alien bent. And lastly, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, for a good exploration of the dark side of alternate realities and alternate selves. Nov 20, Juli rated it really liked it Shelves: read-review-copies Deep Space. Deep time. In the future there isn't much in the universe outside of the reach of humanity Shannon Moss is part of a secret branch of the NCIS that travels in time, investigating possible futures and the Terminus They want to learn how to prevent Terminus, but they also discover that time travel has some very real physical and mental costs.
In , Moss joins a police investigation into the brutal murder Deep Space. In , Moss joins a police investigation into the brutal murder of a mother and two of her children.
Moss is familiar with the house -- years ago her best friend lived there. A Former NavySEAL who disappeared during a time travel mission years before is the main suspect in the grisly murders. The dead woman's 17 year old daughter is missing. As she travels in time to find facts about the murders, the missing girl and the crazed suspect, Moss also discovers horrifying facts about Terminus.
This book is an awesome mix of Sci-fi and suspense thriller! The story sucked me in right away and I couldn't stop reading! The plot has intricate layers Moss is an excellent main character I definitely recommend this book for lovers of Sci-Fi, suspense and thriller novels.
It's an exciting read. The story just grabs ahold and doesn't let go until the very last page. Excellent read! This book will release in February All opinions expressed are entirely my own. First spoiler-free review of ! Holy hell…what a way to start the New Year! And I generally tend to avoid books that everyone else seems to be reading at that time. And this one fits that bill, having come out a year ago and getting some solid accolades.
As with all my reviews, I will attempt to keep spoilers to an absolute minimum. I truly despise major plot spoilers, and honestly feel that books and movies, and music, and… just have more impact and are more enjoyable when you go in without preconceived notions or expectations. And with books like The Gone World where there are so many twists and discoveries and branching plot points, to make any mention of them would lessen the impact of the work as a whole.
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