paperback, 480 pages
Published May 7, 2019 by Sourcebooks Landmark.
This is right up there with Steins;Gate as far as time loop stories go. A locked room mystery with many layers that only gets better all the way to the end.
Unique and wild
I had to give it five stars, because it sets out to do something unique and new and difficult, and it succeeds, as well as being a pleasure (if a confusing one) to read.
I can imagine it being done better, in theory, but I doubt that will happen in my lifetime, so I won't reserve a star for that.
It isn't a murder mystery, or a SF time-travel or body-hopping story, but describing it as not those things is as close to describing what it is, as we can get without ruining it. Also, it takes place in and around a big old nearly-ruined English estate, and who doesn't love that?
Read this, if only so that in the future when someone says "sort of like in that seven and a half deaths book", you'll know what they mean.
With a familiar premise mashed with a familiar genre, what results is a debut novel that is a breath of fresh air for both and will leave even the most seasoned mystery readers bewildered.
