Anne Bogel

How does this sound to you?

Well, I'm delighted to hear it.

Christine and I are recording before the summer reading guide, but I will have said more about it by the time this episode is airing and you can have your hands on it.

Past Christine can be reading it by the time this episode is playing for everyone.

Okay, I'm glad that sounds like a good fit.

Next, I'm thinking about Lightbreakers by Aja Gable.

And this one has been out for a little longer.

Have you read this?

Well, this one has a strong hook for you just with the content, so it could be a great place to start with Aja Gable, and then you can decide.

It is very different from the ensemble, and I think this one came out in fall 2024, but I was one of many readers who had just been eagerly awaiting her next one forever.

Six years.

And she's a screenwriter.

So she was writing in the meantime, just not writing books that we could hold in our hands.

But this new novel is very different from her first.

In this one, a quantum physicist is approached by a rich, egotistical billionaire to work on a secret project involving a dangerous kind of time travel.

And at first, our scientist Noah and his wife Maya believe that Noah's been singled out because he's brilliant.

And he's definitely brilliant, but he's also been targeted because of a tragedy in his past that's really being exploited here.

And the billionaire also has secret sinister motives, but he's keeping those under wraps for the time being.

So Noah and Maya decide he's going to take the job.

They can't turn it down.