Audrey A. (Arosea) reviewed on 9/16/2024 + 476 more book reviews

The moral and ethical issues that JCO delves into are thought-provoking, especially those related to research participant exploitation. The exploitation of junior researchers by senior researchers, especially in the 1960s and earlier, is by no means a new topic (although again, thankfully, part of EH's story and not HM's). JCO's ability to get inside EH and view the world from his time capsule of 70 seconds, is masterful and believable. However, the twist in this story, the manipulative relationship Margot Sharpe, the neuropsychologist and ultimate leader of the EH research project, develops with EH is not believable (or too horrific to believe). But this is fiction after all, and as fiction is a fascinating tale of two lives, one blighted by physical damage to his brain, and the other blighted by her own obsession and loneline

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