Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. ...
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Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. And the deaths quickly follow. Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other. But nobody knows who created it, or why. Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear. For Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future. ???2023 Helen Macdonald & Sin Blach??? (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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I was a little apprehensive starting Prophet - at 480 pages it's a bit of a beast. I tend not to request longer books, as anything over 400 pages usually merit the criticism 'they could have cut at least 100 pages out of it' from me! Unless it's a fantasy epic, tell me a story and keep it concise!
Prophet unfortunately was no exception to this, and I DNFd it at 27% or page 131. The premise is quite interesting - a substance which brings to life your happiest memory and uses it as a weapon against you. Main character Rao, who can always tell a truth from a lie and Adam, a no-personality military brute, are tasked with finding out what's going on. After 131 pages that's all I really got from the book and what is there could easily have been condensed into a few chapters. There's too much superfluous dialogue and nothing really moves the plots on.
The chapters alternate between the present-day timeline, a past timeline of when Rao and Adam started working together and an unlabelled flashback of a character's childhood. I'm sure these come together at some point to make a satisfying connection but at the outset it just broke up the main storyline with more dialogue that also didn't move the plot forward. I read some reviews that mentioned that the pace and interest dipped a lot in the middle, and at 130 pages I was very aware I still had many pages to go before it was likely to get interesting. As I was struggling to find the motivation to keep picking it up, I bowed out of this particular story.
Overall, although the premise is interesting, the pacing is slow and at almost a third in, I didn't feel engaged or interested in the book to keep reading. Thank you to NetGalley, Random House UK, Vintage & Jonathan Cape for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
