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This book seemed interesting at first. The main character is a sociology professor and a dry drunk. She quit drinking, but is still acting like an alcoholic- lying, hiding things from her family, constantly thinking everything is about her, etc…and it is causing a lot of problems in her life. This is especially true once she starts having unexplained blackouts and feels she needs to hide this too (at least that is my interpretation, the author never gives a good explanation for why she is hiding this).

Then the book escalates into some weird unbelievable sci-fi craziness. A random male professor who hates women for some reason (no one really explains why, we are just to assume it’s because he’s a man) decides to steal the work of a female colleague and develops a way to use cell phone signals to disrupt the formation of memories in a given targeted individual (WTF?) with a plan to later erase/replace memories. One of the targeted individuals is our protagonist who was writing articles about his nephew’s conviction for rape and his light sentence. Once she starts to figure out what’s going on, she assembles a rag tag group of highly educated and intellectual women, all with unique skills essential to beat the bad guy, and they band together to come to the rescue! (seriously, it was pretty cheesy).

There’s another girl who was a victim of the nephew’s but we don’t know why she doesn’t get targeted for this memory-disrupting- experiment, maybe she was going to be next- who knows!? The nephew also gets targeted because the mad-scientist wants him to believe he’s innocent. It’s ok though, our protagonist does some breaking and entering and attacks him and then the nephew kills him in an anti-climactic ending. Since he’s dead, you never really know why he did what he did (the hypothesis our main character puts together makes no sense) but at this point you don’t care anymore and just want to book to be over. Apparently the department chair was in on the whole thing, but no one knows why and it is never talked about again. No one is held accountable and nothing happens. There’s an unrealistic feel good ending that made me want to vomit. The end.