“Raul and Jane’s mutual respect and a desire to protect each other are the book’s emotional backbone. Its action scenes are punctuated by the complications of their soft, sad love. While Jane laments that she doesn’t feel easy empathy, her thoughts suggest otherwise: she exhibits clear understandings of those around her, even when she’s working to decide who to trust.”

“The mystery of Jane’s death and her subsequent revival is at the dark heart of an unfolding biological experiment that will leave readers reeling, and the final reveal is a shocker. Along the way, Ramirez visits the themes of memory and mortality through the lenses of science and occult while playing on universal themes of genetic engineering and ethical issues, trauma, abuse, and malevolence. Clever and suspenseful, the novel pulls the reader in and doesn’t let go.”