SFF

The Quiet Room

Del Rey: Ballantine. (Rabbits, Bk. 2). Oct. 2023. 432p. ISBN 9780593496404. $28.99. SF
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The game Rabbits, and the multiverse it uses as its canvas, is a conspiracy theorist’s dream as it toys with the lives of its players. Emily Cooper, one of the players in the first book of Miles’s series, finds herself in another branch of the multiverse, desperately searching for the latest iteration of the game and the way back home. Emily is on the run from the novel’s first page, with no way in and seemingly no way out to save herself or the multiverse that Rabbits is supposed to be protecting—unless it’s been lying to her all along. This sequel both raises the stakes and expands the universe of this time-slipping, universe-spanning, conspiracy-choked game realm, as Emily never knows whether she’s saving the world or ending it or whether anything she’s found, including the love of her life, will still exist on the other side of the dimensional gate.
VERDICT Readers who loved the first book in the series, Rabbits, will be caught up in the wild goose chase aspects of this technothriller, but those looking for more straightforward storytelling may be less than thrilled.
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