Optic Nerve by Rebecca Rowland

 

Rating: ★★★★★

Genre: Body Horror

Format: eBook

Pages: 56

Read: 07/14/22

Synopsis:

Shawn is a scientist developing the formula for a drug that may cure blindness by stimulating another area of the brain that controls perception. When he surreptitiously tests the drug on himself, he accidentally accesses a neural pathway that appears to allow him to communicate with a complete stranger through telepathy instead. When Shawn finally discovers the significance of their connection and of the drug’s true effects, it is too late to stop the damage their intimate friendship has set in motion to unfold.

Advanced Review:

“IT’S NOT A GHOST STORY; it’s a love story.”

“Every love story is a ghost story. Some writer said that once, didn’t he?”

Shawn is a scientist working on a new breakthrough medication that will end all the conditions and diseases that affect the eyes. He secretly begins to take the pill testing the drug on himself with the only side effect being headaches. As the weeks pass on a whole new effect begins and opens up a telepathic link to a complete stranger. A relationship is developed, but little does he know what the true nature of the impending danger that is about to happen. It is all about to be revealed and the future is set to play out no matter the cost.

Themes of body horror, medical innovations, telepathy, and psychological obsessions. Character’s written so realistically; friendships, family, and intimate relationships. Human angst of an unknown future and the hope to make a change in the field of vision. 

So well written it feels as if you're part of the story as it all unfolds. The build up can be felt but you're still left in suspense until the ending and that is when it feels as if you were struck by a lightning bolt and thrown completely over the edge of a cliff. What the hell just happened? 

Loved it!!

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