The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock

The Completionist
by Siobhan Adcock
narrated by Jacques Roy

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Just released: June 19, 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Genre: Dystopia
Hardback: 320
Rating: 5

First sentence(s):
Everything is heavy here: his weapon, the metal and synthetic particles in the air, the way the light falls through them.

After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter.

Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can’t ignore...and his slightly-more-than recreational drinking.

Carter’s efforts to find Gardner lead him into a dangerous underground, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face.

My two-bits:

Engaging and eerie (kind of mystery) story that came across as a warning.

Got me thinking of future families and relationships as well as environmental issues.

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* Listened to audiobook version.

* part of BookSparks Reading Challenge, Summer (here)

Spotlight: The Barter by Siobhan Adcock

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The Barter
by Siobhan Adcock
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In today’s “lean in” era, debut novelist Siobhan Adcock casts the issue of whether women can ever “have it all” into a superbly written novel that will have readers everywhere talking. Bridget has given up her career to raise her daughter, but now a terrifying presence has entered their Texas home—and only Bridget can feel it. In 1902, motherhood spurs Rebecca to turn her back on her husband, despite her own misgivings. As Adcock crosscuts these two women’s stories with mounting tension, each arrives at a terrible ordeal of her own making.

About the author:

Siobhan Adcock received her MFA in fiction from Cornell University, and her short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines. She has worked as a writer and editor for Epicurious, Gourmet.com, iVillage.com, and The Knowm among other digital publishers. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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* heads-up courtesy of BookSparks