Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren't You and I by Albert Espinosa
This copy was provided for free from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Thoughts at a glance: ** (It was okay) Note: This novel was originally written in Spanish, and I read it in translation. Marcos lives in a world where people can take injections to stop sleeping. The night after his much-beloved mother passes away, he is on the brink of injecting himself when two seemingly-unrelated things happen to change his mind: 1) he is drawn to a girl he can see off in the distance from his balcony, and 2) he gets a phone call that an alien has been captured, and his police detective boss needs him to use his special gift to identify him. Marcos has the ability to look at people and see a whole lot about them: their extreme best and worst moments, as well as a bunch of other moments in between. And... yeah. Did that summary seem abrupt? That's because this story is hard for me to explain. On the one hand, there's the meandering storyline about the alien and ...