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Unstable States #3
Wrinkles in Spacetime
Lonely food developer Stella would like nothing better than to finally have a lab partner to help her create new synthetic products and share her passion for science. But her nation of Cochtonia has gone off the deep end. Fertility rates are dropping, and the autocratic male rulers have decided to turn to alchemy to produce offspring.
Sir Isaac Newton has been resurrected from the dead to take a lead role in the impossible task, ordered by the autocracy. He is to work as a team to create a homunculus—a tiny person, made outside of a womb. Women won’t be needed at all!
Being celibate in his previous life, Newton has never indulged in romance, but procreation without females sounds crazy even to him. When Stella offers to help him fake the results to save his neck, he’s more than willing.
But is Newton the real thing or a genetically modified fake? As the pair collaborates, Stella becomes more and more uncertain. In proceeding with the deception, they find that chemistry isn’t limited to the laboratory. In a world where love and romance are punishable by law, mutual attraction could mean execution for them both.
Sir Isaac Newton has been resurrected from the dead to take a lead role in the impossible task, ordered by the autocracy. He is to work as a team to create a homunculus—a tiny person, made outside of a womb. Women won’t be needed at all!
Being celibate in his previous life, Newton has never indulged in romance, but procreation without females sounds crazy even to him. When Stella offers to help him fake the results to save his neck, he’s more than willing.
But is Newton the real thing or a genetically modified fake? As the pair collaborates, Stella becomes more and more uncertain. In proceeding with the deception, they find that chemistry isn’t limited to the laboratory. In a world where love and romance are punishable by law, mutual attraction could mean execution for them both.
333 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 23, 2022
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Catherine Haustein
7 books22 followersI'm a chemist and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Good-hearted female scientists are my protagonists. I live in the small, quiet town of Pella, Iowa, known for its Dutch roots. I love to blog about chemicals and equality. Is sugar toxic? Do you really need dryer sheets? Will global warming make you have to urinate more? Check it out here
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December 13, 2022
“Wrinkles in Spacetime” is such a unique story, albeit a little far-fetched. Ms. Haustein does a good job of telling the story between two very interesting characters.
Read full review in the 2022 Holiday issue of InD'tale Magazine.
Read full review in the 2022 Holiday issue of InD'tale Magazine.
September 5, 2022
This was a very weird read, it feels very shallow, we don’t really have likeable character and this society sucks…
The main character Stella, she is very “hungry” and I don’t mean to eat food… she even looks at her boss, that is a slob looking man, with hungry eyes, that is, until she starts to fancy a kind of a “caveman”, I wont spoil this book to other people that wish to tackle this story, but it really wasn't for me… even Stella parents annoyed me, they wanted to adopt a girl just to make the shores at home, and since they didn't have a spare bedroom for the girl, she was supposed to sleep on Stella bed during the day and Stella would sleep there at night... and they way the dialogues are written sound a bit all over the place, even the sex sounds more clumsy than hot…
The two presidents of the great country of Cochonia are males and married and they want an heir, so they decide to resurrect a scientist and alchemist from the past to make them a homunculus… and what do you think happen? Women need to have great achievements to be allowed to have an authorization to have sex… yeah very weird world
But again, maybe it was me that had a bias against the story and perhaps you will love it…
Thank you NetGalley for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.
The main character Stella, she is very “hungry” and I don’t mean to eat food… she even looks at her boss, that is a slob looking man, with hungry eyes, that is, until she starts to fancy a kind of a “caveman”, I wont spoil this book to other people that wish to tackle this story, but it really wasn't for me… even Stella parents annoyed me, they wanted to adopt a girl just to make the shores at home, and since they didn't have a spare bedroom for the girl, she was supposed to sleep on Stella bed during the day and Stella would sleep there at night... and they way the dialogues are written sound a bit all over the place, even the sex sounds more clumsy than hot…
The two presidents of the great country of Cochonia are males and married and they want an heir, so they decide to resurrect a scientist and alchemist from the past to make them a homunculus… and what do you think happen? Women need to have great achievements to be allowed to have an authorization to have sex… yeah very weird world
But again, maybe it was me that had a bias against the story and perhaps you will love it…
Thank you NetGalley for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.
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