WORMHOLES - Dennis Meredith

Without warning, an apparent sink hole completely swallows up a home in Oklahoma. Other  disasters also occur around the world about the same time, and when a human arm falls out of the sky in Missouri, geologist Dacey Livingstone teams up with physicist Gerald Meier to understand what's happening. Dacey had already explored the house-swallowing sink-hole with near fatal results.

The occurrences are wormholes - a phenomenon that occurs in space, allowing for long-distance travel. Which begs the question - where did these come from? Is there an alien race (or races) that will soon be appearing?  Or is it simply an invitation - waiting for humans to step on through? Is it just a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens to have hit Earth?

Dacey and Gerald work together to uncover the secrets of the wormholes and, if possible harness their power before other countries get their first.

I found the story to be simple and slow.  Our brilliant scientists have to explain every step of every process to each other as though the other can't follow along. I recognize that this is a means of getting information to the reader, but aside for the 'telling' rather than 'showing', it makes our scientists look like they must have faked their way through their degrees.

As readers, we can figure out what's happening simply based on the title, but our scientists take awhile to get to the point where they even think they know what these 'holes' are, so there's no mystery for us and no surprise discovery.

I really did like the general concept and this is one of those rare books (for me) where I'd actually like to see this story revisited - there's a great idea here but the writing just doesn't live up to the potential. In addition to being both brilliant scientists and dunces who need things explained in layman's terms, our protagonists have no real depth to them. They're stock characters in a community theatre play - moving from point A to point B because the author told them to.

Looking for a good book? Wormholes by Dennis Meredith is a good scifi thriller concept but the adventure (and the characters) don't created the thrills we hope for. 

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

2-1/2 stars

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Wormholes

author: Dennis Meredith

publisher: Glyphus, LLC

ISBN: 9781939118004

paperback, 336 pages

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