Rating 4, liked the jarring mystery of this and as readers or listeners, we feel Aimee's desperation and fear.
My Thoughts:
Sensory Time Warp Syndrome is a condition where there is a synesthesia trigger, for Aimee, a smell, that causes her to disappear and time travel back into her own memory. She keeps wanting help but her father tells her that she will grow out of it. Instead, the time gets longer, alarmingly longer. I felt for her as her life is controlled by this fear of disappearing. When she fixes on the idea that her disappearances may be related to finding her mom who has disappeared, the story gets really interesting.
I think what makes this work is the novelty of the story, but also the way this mystery is so irritatingly slow to unveil. This came out a few years ago and I am surprised that it did not get more press. Besides being a unique story, the cover is very eye catching.
As far as the audiobook, it is easy to listen to, easy to get caught up in, easy to finish.
From the Publisher:
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life.
When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom—a moment Aimee has never remembered before—she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn’t match up with the story of how her mom left—at least, not the version she’s always heard from her dad.
Desperate for answers, Aimee travels to Korea, where she unravels the mystery of her memories, the truth about her mother, and the reason she keeps returning to certain moments in her life. Along the way, she realizes she’ll need to reconcile her past in order to save her present.
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