Book Review: Prophet by Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché
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About The Book
A mysterious event.
An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. A weapon like no other. The deaths quickly follow.
A devastating weapon.
Prophet is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. But nobody knows who created it, or why.
A fight for the future.
Sunil Rao and Adam Rubenstein are tasked with investigating this strange new reality. After a troubled past together, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear.
Why We Love It
A highly original and genre-defying collaborative novel from Helen Macdonald, author of H Is For Hawk, and Sin Blaché, an author and musician born in California and now living in the northwest of Ireland.
I'm going to be honest I've struggled with this review - not because I don't love it, because I really, really do - but just because it's just so fabulously inventive, it's hard to know where to start without revealing too much of the plot.
Meet Sunil Rao. A former MI6 agent with a troubled past, sharp tongue and unsettling ability to identity truth and falsehood.
And now meet Lieutenant Colonel Adam Rubinstein, a straight-laced, by-the-book military man with an equally tragic backstory.
Rao and Adam have worked together before and make a heck of a team. They're reunited to investigate the appearance of mysterious objects, drawn out of people's dreams and memories, at a US military base in the UK, a fascinating and frightening concept in itself.
If drawn-out characters with witty banter, sarcastic humour and more than a hint of subtext is your thing, then this will be right up your street.
If government conspiracies with a hint of Stranger Things and The X-Files is your thing, then this will be right up your street.
And if you just love completely engrossing, fast-paced sci-fi/fantasy that makes you laugh out loud one minute and breaks your heart the next, then this is for you
Utterly and completely brilliant, and we throughly recommend it!
