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Katherine “Kitty” Gibbs is having a
wonderful week, living a wonderful life. Great job, great
friends and a great fiancé. Too bad she’s living this week
over and over. Unfortunately, she has no idea what’s going
on. All the people in her life are actors and her days are
scheduled with fake events, designed to keep her living the
status quo, the better for the experiment she’s the subject
of.
But her real best friends know what is
happening. Living in the present, missing Katherine who is
stuck in the past, they are desperate to get her out and
away from her fake fiancé, Leonardo Kayser. They attempt to
get to her in the future, but their methods aren’t working.
So they call in an expert – Walter “Q” Sheffield, a
time-anomaly specialist.
It’s Q’s job to get her out. The plan
includes him developing a relationship with Kitty, something
that scares him to death. But if they can get her to
recognize him, they have a better chance of pulling her
through to the present, where she belongs.
Irreversible is the sequel to the first Shomi
book, WIRED. The beginning is a bit confusing, even for
someone familiar with the concepts of string theory and
quantum physics. Once you get past the first several pages
covering Ms. Maverick’s version of time travel, the story
takes over and is much better. The gradual realization
Kitty has of what is going on is interesting, if not
entirely consistent. Q’s attempts to understand his
feelings for Kitty is sweet. The ending, however, gets
mired in too many pages explaining… well, I am not sure I
understand it. If you can get past the science, the story
is a readable romance. |
