Lauren Beukes

Okay people who like to be creeped out. Time to immediately get this book and start reading. This is a dark and creepy police procedural. It's told from several POVs with distinct personalities. It constantly flirts with the supernatural leaving us readers always wondering exactly what it going on. It reads like a mash up of True Detective and The X-Files.

It is beautifully written and uses the urban decay of Detroit as a brilliant setting. I found myself completely unable to put the book down for the last two hundred pages. This is easily my favorite book of the year. Now I am going to try and not have creepy nightmares.… (mer)

Bridget’s mom taught her to use dreamworm to visit alternate realities, but then Bridget grew up and decided it was fake. When her mom died, though, she found more dreamworm in her mom’s effects—and decided she had to go find her mom, who must have jumped out of her body to some other reality. Also, other people can jump realities, but they are not benign, nor are the effects of being jumped into. As with her other work, Beukes takes an idea that’s been done before but does it very differently, drawing our attention to the costs to the jumpees and the various ways in which lives can go wrong.… (mer)