Dissolution was a book that made me think. It’s one I couldn’t help but go back to every day and one that has made me tell everyone I know. If you love books about memory, love, and high stakes then you have to read this one. Keep reading this book review of Dissolution for my full thoughts.
Summary
Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It’s the loneliest she’s ever felt in her life.
When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn’t losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she’s told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husband’s mind, probing the depths of his past in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last.
But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after now, she risks far more than her husband’s life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Dissolution strikes that perfect balance between a book that has high stakes and emotional heart. From the beginning, Binge tells us a heart rending story about endings. It talks about how we never know it’s the last time someone will smile at us, fall in love, and we see these memories – and the relationships – through Stanley’s perspective. We feel the pull of love and heartbreak, grief and loss. It immediately begins by strumming these heart strings. And then the stakes and mystery begin to rise. The tampering, manipulation, and truth begin to blur.
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For fans of timey wimey stories, and if you’ve read Binge’s debut, you will enjoy Dissolution. Throughout this action packed story, we are asked us about what separates us from fulfilling our dreams. Is it morality, ethics, our conscience? Throughout we are asked whether we forget for a reason. Without our memories, what do we become? I couldn’t stop reading Dissolution. While it has these unrelatable stories of time and memory, it also has universal questions about ambition and love. While the ending is something that I’ll have to think about, Dissolution is a book that I’ll have a hard time forgetting Find Dissolution on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop.org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.