A Quantum Love Story
A Novel
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4.3 • 31 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood
The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.
Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator.
Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying.
Because time is about to loop.
In a flash of energy, it’s Monday morning. Again. Together, Mariana and Carter enter an inevitable life, four days at a time, over and over, without permanence except for what they share.
But just as they figure out this new life, everything changes. Because Carter's memories of the time loop are slowly disappearing. And their only chance at happiness is breaking out of the loop—forever.
“This unusual and satisfying near-future time-travel adventure fires on all cylinders.” —Publishers Weekly
Also by Mike Chen:
HERE AND NOW AND THEN
A BEGINNING AT THE END
WE COULD BE HEROES
LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chen notes that this tender combination of romance and science is a "bit of a bookend" to his second novel, A Beginning at the End, albeit with "more semireal-but-mostly-fake science." Carter Cho, a quantum mechanics technician working on the top secret Hawke Particle Accelerator, and Mariana Pineda, a neuroscientist touring the facility with her company, ReLive, makers of a new memory-enhancing drug, meet just before the accelerator explodes. The duo wind up trapped together in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the four days leading up to the explosion. As they try to break free, they gradually fall in love. Then Mariana discovers the accelerator can be used as a time machine, and sets out to save the life of her late best friend, Shay, even if she has to "break time and space"—and sacrifice her relationship with Carter—to do so. Despite the stress of their predicament, Chen's charming young lovers find time to share some exquisite meals and tactfully presented love scenes. Frequent flashbacks to Mariana's friendship with Shay provide sound motivation for her heroic action. This unusual and satisfying near-future time-travel adventure fires on all cylinders. [
Customer Reviews
Tight story and good character development
This was a good read. Characters are well developed, and the storytelling is tight, without any unnecessary tangents.