A review by anjreading
Faller by Will McIntosh

3.0

This was probably my second-least favorite of McIntosh's books to date (Burning Midnight was my least favorite). He definitely comes up with really creative premises, and this book is no exception to that, but perhaps the pace of listening to it rather than reading it made it harder for me to get into. It starts with the protagonist waking up in a fractured world where he and everyone around him have mass amnesia. Faller, as he later dubs himself, has some clues in his pocket - a photo, a map drawn in blood, and a toy soldier with a parachute. Every other chapter gives a flashback to the pre-amnesia, pre-fractured world, where we slowly piece together what happened. There are two huge things that happen to cause the present-day mess, and I felt like a book focusing on one or the other might have been more successful. Not a bad book by any means, but if you haven't read McIntosh I'd recommend starting with Hitchers or Love Minus Eighty.