Impossible to finish it. Boring and tedious. Hope next Connie Willis book will be better.

I loved To Say Nothing of the Dog also by Connie Willis so I was really looking forward to reading this book. Unfortunately I was a little let down by the immense detail in the book which made for slow reading and kept losing my interest.

The book begins with Briddey about to get an EDD - an implant to be able to sense what someone you are emotionally bonded to is feeling and vice versa. As she has only been going out with Trent for six weeks it seemed a little drastic to me - but then so did the way her entire family kept trooping into the office to tell her their woes - how did any work get done in this place?

Of course nothing goes to plan and their are some radical complications after she has the EDD fitted and these form the basis of the book. She gets connected but to whom?

There is nothing I love more than a great Sci-fi novel and this could have been one if it had been edited down more. Pages and pages of what was essentially the same thing over and over again, which I felt as the reader I had got the first time around.

Glimpses of the plot kept me going as I was keen to find out was going to happen in the end. Certainly the last 100 pages or so the plot was more refined and less rambling and I was gripped. If only the book could have been more concise throughout.

I'm giving this book 3 out of 5 stars with thanks to Netgalley for a copy of the book for review.