Narration: 5 Stars
Story: 5 Stars

I finally, finally picked up a Blake Crouch book & ya'll, I'm just blown away - lately I've been sitting on my reviews for a bit, but I haven't been able to get this out of my head once since finishing a few nights ago. This is easily one of my top books of the year!

I went into this pretty blind & I'd highly recommend doing the same, so I'm going to keep this pretty low on detail & plot. You're instantly drawn in & not once - not once! - did this let up, I was either consistently on the edge of my seat from the numerous twists & turns or sitting there with tears in my eyes pondering the meaning of humanity & life. Crouch is an incredible storyteller, I completely understand the hype, & he really does write sci-fi in such an accessible way. I will say I think the audiobook really worked in my favor here, it was much easier to grasp & understand having the technical terms being read to me vs. me reading them myself. & speaking of the audiobook, our narrator, Henry Levya, did an amazing job, he really sold the emotion & made the characters, especially Logan, so deeply human. I'm not lying when I say this brought me to tears more than once, there's such an important underlying message to be taken away from this story, one that will stay with me for a long time.

Needless to say, I absolutely loved this & highly recommend picking up a copy, & thank you so much for the free audiobook @prhaudio! I wanted to this end with what is easily my favorite line from the entire book - What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there's no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.