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The Gone World
400 pages
A dread-soaked, mind-bending thriller where a gritty murder investigation collides with the terrifying, apocalyptic edges of time and space.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into a nightmare where the rules of reality are constantly fracturing. It moves with a propulsive, ticking-clock urgency, dragging you through a bleak and dread-soaked atmosphere that is as claustrophobic as it is cosmically vast. The narrative seamlessly blends the gritty, hardboiled texture of a dark police procedural with the hallucinatory terror of apocalyptic science fiction. You are constantly kept off-balance, gripped by a profound sense of existential dread and the terrifying fragility of the timeline. It is a visceral, mind-bending experience designed for readers who love their thrillers laced with cosmic horror, complex temporal mechanics, and an unrelenting, chilling atmosphere that lingers long after the final page is turned.
- Mood
- dread-soaked
- apocalyptic
- mind-bending
- claustrophobic
- Tone
- grim
- urgent
- clinical
- hardboiled
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- existential dread · fragility of reality · trauma and memory · cosmic insignificance · the burden of knowledge
- The writing
- Cinematic and visceral, the writing seamlessly fuses the stark, gritty realism of a police procedural with hallucinatory, terrifying science fiction.
- The arc
- The journey begins as a tense, grounded procedural before spiraling into a desperate, mind-shattering confrontation with cosmic inevitability.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave dark, complex thrillers that combine the bleak atmosphere of a gritty detective story with mind-bending, apocalyptic sci-fi.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- body horror
- child death
- suicide
- existential dread
- gore
About the book
Time-travel secret agent Shannon Moss visits future time periods for clues about a Navy SEAL astronaut's murdered family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, a case that is complicated by the SEAL's and Shannon's own impact on the timeline.
Description from Open Library.
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