Creators: Mixed A Belletrist Book Club Pick “Riveting . . . Lightbreakers is a marvel. . . propulsive and unforgettable.”–Washington Post “You will love this genre-busting book. . . A beautiful meditation of grief, time, and love.” –Samin Nosrat What would you give to relive the past? Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four. When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to help unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in dangerous, secret experiments that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again. Meanwhile, Maya returns to her own past in Japan and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be what they seem. A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.
LikedBut where Recursion goes kind of a more thriller exciting sci-fi type of a way, like an Inception type of a direction, Lightbreakers definitely goes more into the literary fiction character side of it all, which is really interesting because, you know, while I did love Recursion and I actually loved Recursion more than this one.
DislikedI definitely am enjoying Noah's chapters a lot more. But I still feel like this book has been so slow paced. Like I'm 40% of the way through the book and almost nothing has happened.
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