tags: broken people, soap opera
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Amanda Jackson has always longed to be a mother. The early weeks of her first pregnancy are a mixture of joy, anticipation, and uncertainty as she and her husband prepare for the journey ahead.
Then comes a devastating loss. Even though her doctors tell her otherwise, Amanda believes she’s still pregnant. Her diagnosis is a rare, mysterious condition called pseudocyesis. Betrayed by her mind and body and her marriage strained, Amanda turns to neuroscientist Patrick Davis for answers.
Patrick understands the strange twists and turns of the human mind better than anyone. But as he spirals ever deeper into Amanda’s illness, his own homelife crumbles as his wife, Marissa, struggles to cope with her own loss. Marissa’s unique and, some may think, macabre work is her salvation, but it’s pulling her further and further away from Patrick.
As the two couples confront the fraught intersection of science, death, and human emotion, they venture into the darkest corners of each other’s lives. What they find there could change them forever.*Sigh* I never learn. Once again I got tricked by glowing comments on Amazon, and the science aspect convinced me to download the book from Amazon First Reads for January 2022. What a huge disappointment and complete waste of my time! The book, inhabited by broken people, is nothing more than soap opera disguised as science-y. There are extremely long paragraphs on science and mathematics that bored me to death. The math theory that Marissa is working on is supposed to discover parallel universes but it never came to fruition. Nothing. So what was the point? SMH
Spoilers
The wife who ails from phantom pregnancy after she miscarried cheated on her husband and got pregnant by the man she cheated with. The husband had a hand in the miscarriage although she didn't know it at the time. After several informal "consultations" with the neuroscientist Patrick, she once again is contemplating sleeping with him and they started having an affair even before knowing what happened to her (Amanda's) husband. What a slut!
The wife of the second couple, Marissa, a brilliant mathematician, is mentally disturbed due to an accident that caused the death of her newborn niece. She ignored her husband completely after the accident trying to discover how to see her sister and niece through mathematical theories. Both the husband and wife. Patrick and Marissa, grew up in dysfunctional families. The author could have given their families different issues, but no, it has to be almost the same problem - the abusive and distant father.
Not recommended.
I docked half a star for these reasons
the author taking a malicious jab at Dr. Ben Carson
ranting about abortion and against pro-lifers
making religious fanatics as uncontrollable insane people
These topics are not necessary and show his biased politics. The author should stay away from politics if he wants to attract a wide range of readers.
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