Dissolution is a mind-bending science fiction thriller, largely told through interviews and flashback, that’s ultimately about love and memory.
It begins with Maggie Webb, an elderly woman whose ailing husband Stanley is struggling with memory loss. She’s trapped in a room with a man called Hassan, who gives her a drug to remember specific moments of her own life – and then her husband’s memory’s too.
Because it turns out that Stanley isn’t suffering from Alzheimer’s – but rather, someone has been removing his memories on purpose. We dive into flashbacks from the past, unveiling Stanley’s youth, the friends he made, the experiments they started…
This is a fun, twisty SF thriller that I think Blake Crouch fans would enjoy. The flashbacks of Stanley’s school days vs Maggie being forced to cooperate with Hassan are doled out in a way that keep you rapidly turning the pages to find out more. It’s a complex plot, with lots of different threads to keep in mind at once, but that’s half the fun of it. And there’s a lovely romance that emerges as the story unfolds.
If I could wish for any changes, I struggled a bit with hearing about Stanley’s super complex early life, then trying to understand he must’ve had quite a calm couple of decades – or did he? Maybe I need to reread!
Would certainly read this author again.
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