Quill and Quire has the first review of Lauren Carter’s latest novel, The Longest Night!
“Carter has a genuine appreciation for classic time-travel narratives and the thought experiments they encourage, and she layers the novel with references and allusions to these texts: ‘so many books: slim novels about kids who slip through portals into strange landscapes and have to find their way back home, or black-covered texts philosophizing on the supernatural, the importance of talismans, walking counterclockwise … books explaining things like string theory, quantum tunnelling.’
“Working within that tradition, Carter does something different by exploring various concepts through the lens of trauma, ‘how it messes up the hippocampus from recording endings, so the situation seems to still be happening. A time traveller stuck in the literal past.'”