Much of the book is really about the chemistry between the main characters ... An ambitious first novel from this duo—I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
A fast-paced techno-thriller, with a high body count, zippy dialogue and an intriguing central mystery ... Macdonald and Blaché manage to fold in powerful reflections on loss and trauma. The balance of the lethal actualisation of happy memories with the sensitive, believable way the two main characters are shown processing their unhappy ones makes this novel a cut above the usual techno-thriller fare. H Is for Highly Recommended.
A trippy, philosophical science-fiction novel with the pacing of a thriller and the pulse of a romance ... The novel betrays its origins as a kind of welcome distraction for its authors, but there is more than enough going on for it to tick that box for plenty of readers too.
Striking in its originality and its capacity to instill unease, even terror. It evolves over time, with the consequences of its use growing ever more disturbing and incomprehensible ... A chilling speculative thriller in which some suffer, and others profit, from idealizing the past.
The relentlessness of Rao and Rubenstein’s banter slows things down after a pacey, intriguing start ... The book’s momentum downshifts from breakneck to NHS waiting list. Things pick up again
A tightly paced, genre-bending tale ... Slow to build at first, and a bit confusing at times—a result not of poor writing or worldbuilding, but of the sheer absurd horror of a world ... A beautiful, tense, and heartfelt novel imagines the weaponization of nostalgia, as an unlikely pair must fight to protect themselves—and the world they know—from memories made deadly.
A low-key sci-fi mystery that blends the genres into a fusion of something new. With a hard-to-pin-down genre, the novel will appeal to a wide variety of readers.
The authors hit all the expected sci-fi notes – an ill-fated experiment expanding into a quantum field of love and loss – but resist the containment of a single genre. Prophet is a page-turner in which object-oriented philosophy sits comfortably alongside military acronyms – and with a handful of familiar horror tropes to boot.
Intriguing and deftly plotted (if overstuffed) ... A crisply written, inventive, complicated brew of a novel, though one that could have used some boiling down.
