Beautiful Briddey works at a technology company that makes smartphones. She has a big, loving, and very intrusive, Irish family, which includes Aunt Oona who always claims in a strong (but fake) Irish brogue that she has the “sight.” Briddey’s paramour, Trent, an executive at her company, insists that the two of them partake of the latest fad and undergo EED brain surgery, which is all the rage in Hollywood. This surgery, as explained to Briddey, is "a simple medical procedure so that we can sense each other’s feelings and communicate better as a couple.” Although her family, and her co-employee, techno-geek C.B., try to discourage her from doing it, Briddey ignores them. Her EED surgery, of course, causes unintended consequences. Briddey discovers that, because of her Irish heritage, the EED has given her unwanted telepathy. As her life veers off in a direction she never expected, Briddey discovers that true friendship and true love are not the by-products of technology.
As Willis did in "Passage," with near death experiences, and the "Doomsday Book" with time travel, in "Crosstalk" she uses technology to take us on a wonderful journey into unimaginable realms. I absolutely adored this book and I could not put it down.
(In return for an honest review, I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.)
Print Length: 512 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (October 4, 2016)
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Sold by: Random House LLC
