The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

[gilda_elise]

Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?

When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate. This leads MI5’s Julian Sabreur deep into terrifying new territory, where he clashes with mysterious agents of an unknown power ­who may or may not be human. And Julian’s only clue is some grainy footage ­– showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.

Khan’s extra-dimensional research was purely theoretical, until she found cracks between our world and countless others. Parallel Earths where monsters live. These cracks are getting wider every day, so who knows what might creep through? Or what will happen when those walls finally come crashing down.

There’s a lot to this story: multiverses, aliens, couples who may or may not get together, an evil megalomaniac, the end of everything. And while there are parts of the book that are quite interesting, there was perhaps a little too much going on for me to get overly interested in any of it.

Several of the characters show a lot of potential; I would have loved to see more of Julian and Alison and how their relationship would progress. Same with Lee and Mal. But all the other plot lines kept getting in the way. I never got to know them the way I wanted to. Because there is something there. I guess that’s what kept me going through almost 600 pages, only to come to an ending that was somewhat flat.

I won’t stop reading Tchaikovsky’s books; I still have hope.




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Comments

[tinny]

You somehow always pick books of his I haven't read. :D I would probably also be more interested (or at least as much) in the relationships than the mystery.