Disillusioned archaeologist, Greg, has often wondered what death felt like. Little does he know, he will prematurely find out.
After a fatal car accident, he enters The Cloud – a viewing platform with the ultimate box set of everything that has ever happened, and has yet to happen, on Earth.
As Greg excavates the artefacts of his own history, journeying across time and realities, he discovers he has a power he could never have imagined: Intervention. The ability to change one thing on Earth but sacrificing his eternal existence in exchange.
Will he take the deal? What will he change? And what ripples will spread from his Intervention?
Intervention has a very thought-provoking premise and it's a book that I have continued to think about, long after turning the final page. Whether you believe in eternal life after death or not, this book really gets the old grey matter working and it would be a fabulous book to discuss at book group.
It's like several books in one as the story is told from the point of view of whoever has died and is in The Cloud. The Cloud is a place where you can select a viewing of events from any point in time. The person in The Cloud has a difficult choice to make: do they stay in The Cloud forever watching reruns of their old life or do they choose to intervene in an event and end their own existence.
If I had to describe Intervention in one sentence I would say: it's like a horror version of a mashup of The Truman Show, Sliding Doors and Groundhog Day but with real consequences of manipulating people's lives. There's a wonderful thread running throughout the book and I loved how it linked Christopher Columbus to characters in the story.
Wonderfully inventive and incredibly thought-provoking, Intervention is an intriguing and compelling piece of speculative fiction that really impressed me.
I received a digital ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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About the author:
Harrison Murphy is a writer from Motherwell, Scotland. He specialises in downbeat speculative fiction with elements of sci-fi and fantasy occasionally thrown into the mix. Intervention is his fourth novel. He also wrote the Chrysalis trilogy which focuses on the societal impacts of an implant which allows the people who can afford it to design their own minds and tinker with the minds of others. He is working on his fifth and sixth novels: one about a computer program that harvests people’s secrets and pits them against each other in a gameshow; the other a dystopian, cli-fi reimagining of Rapunzel.
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