by qntm
First sentence: “‘Do anything nice over Christmas?'”
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Review copy provided by the publisher.
Release date: November 11, 2025
Content: There is swearing, including multiple f-bombs, and some violence that is gross at times. It will be in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section of the bookstore.

Oh, this one is going to be hard to sum up. Possibly impossible. Perhaps the best thing to know is that there is an Organization out there, one that is fighting against various memetics – some harmless, some ancient, others… not so much – to keep humanity, well, functioning. Except there is one memetic that has been released that is so powerful. And the problem is that if you remember it, you can’t combat it. How do you kill an idea that you don’t remember, and that won’t die?

It’s possibly the best bit of mind-blowing crazy train weirdness that I’ve read since the Locked Tomb series. It’s SO hard to explain, and yet, I was riveted: I couldn’t put the book down. Both of my co-workers said when they finished it, they immediately started it over again, and I get that: there is so much here that it’s impossible to catch it all in one reading. It’s really that good.

And I was blown away by it.