The Nearest by Greg Egan
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Short Story (32 pages)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeWhen a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to be a self-contained domestic tragedy, a terrible event but something that doesn’t affect the rest of the community. But it slowly becomes clear that something much darker may be at play, something that spreads out from the scene of the crime to corrode the closest relationships of everyone it touches, in Greg Egan’s The Nearest, a Tor.com Original.
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Kate was a sympathetic protagonist. While I didn’t always know what I thought of her claims that something horrible had happened to her loved ones, I did have sympathy for her distress and hoped she’d get the answers she needed as soon as possible. Figuring out if this character was interpreting the world around her correctly kept me on my toes. I liked her so much that I couldn’t stop reading until I know what was really going on in her life.
The ending didn’t fit the rest of this tale as well as I’d hoped it would. While I did enjoy the direction the author took everything, it would have been nice to have more clues about what was coming in advance. It was jarring for me as areader to see how things were wrapped up when I was expecting a completely different ending based on what the characters had said and done earlier on in the storyline.
The character development was handled nicely in general. I especially enjoyed the way Kate interacted with the people closest to her and how she began to treat them when she first suspected something had changed in their world. Yes, these scenes were a bit frightening at times. They showed off parts of the characters’ personalities that would have otherwise remained hidden, though, and this never crossed the line into something I’d consider to be part of the horror genre.
The Nearest should be read by fans of mysteries and science fiction alike.
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