Triggers: Review

From Goodreads:
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life.

At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories.

Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not "his" memories.

It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh's equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another's minds.

And now one of those people has access to the president's memories- including classified information regarding the upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining who has switched memories with whom is a daunting one- particularly when some of the people involved have reason to lie...

My Review:
Well, first I must say, this book isn't what I was expecting. I was expecting a thriller, and while the beginning was, well, this was much better then a thriller! It was science, and it was mystery, and it was people coming together-their minds, their consciousness's-to be one, at peace, and just good. And that was just amazing, and it makes me hope that it could happen, because The Singularity of all humans would eliminate all bad, and bring out all good, and well, it might just be the only thing that might save our planet the way we're going.

Set sometime after this year, I think, because I don't understand American politics, but it's after Obama isn't president anymore, and there's Operation Counter-punch, where the US is going to use highly sophisticated bombs to wipe out Pakistan, to show terrorists that they won't stand for any more American deaths by said terrorists. And when the president is shot, he's taken to the hospital, but as his heart stops, a bomb goes off at the White House, letting out an electromagnetic pulse, and everything goes out at the hospital, and suddenly, people are linked, from one person to another, one person having another person's life in their head, and that person having someone else, and in a link, everyone having another person with them.

And while they aren't allowed out because the confidential plans in the Presidents head, and things grow, and change, and there's events, and well, it was a very fun read!

The part where the sun starts to bring all the minds together, first Washington D. C., and following the sun rise, well, it was quite amazing. And once everyone was linked together, well, they were good. And what a great ending!

This was an awesome, fantastic, amazing, wonderful, intricate, unique, and awe-inspiring book, I hope you guys really check this one out, it's a keeper!

Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Read: April 9th, 2012
Source: Publisher for Tour Review Copy
Reason Why: It sounded interesting!
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: April 3rd 2012

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