She’s felt it before…the fear of losing control. And it’s happening again.In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She’s already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young … her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will travel with a NASA team to a space station where the crew has been stricken with symptoms of a similar inexplicable psychosis—memory loss, trances, and violent, uncontrollable impulses.
Crippled by a secret addiction and suffering from creeping paranoia, Gillian finds her journey becoming a nightmare as unexplainable and violent events plague the mission. With her grip weakening on reality, she starts to doubt her own innocence. And she’s beginning to question so much more—like the true nature of the mission, the motivations of the crew, and every deadly new secret space has to offer.
Merging thrilling science-fiction adventure with mind-bending psychological suspense, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart explores both the vast mysteries of outer space and the even darker unknown that lies within ourselves.
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I really enjoyed this sci-fi thriller. Kept me guessing to the end.
Joe Hart is a tremendous talent, and with Obscura, he has taken his storytelling to the next level. This is a genius work of science fiction, brimming with thrills, scares, and most importantly, heart. I devoured this book, and you will too.
I have read all of Joe Hart’s books and this one was GREAT just like his others. I will admit this book had me hooked from the first chapter. . . excellent read!!!
Wow!
I haven’t read one of Joe Hart’s books that I didn’t like. This is no exception. Despite all the techo-science, it has a human element at its core, which makes you love the characters and will for them, even though, or perhaps because, they’re flawed. An excellent read I highly recommend.
Great Sci-Fi whodunit.
I loved this book!! I have read books by joe hart before and love his writing and this book does not disappoint!! Thoroughly recommend!! The ending of this book got so suspenseful that I had to stay up half the night because I had to know how it ended.
This was such a great read with a fantastic mashup of science fiction, thriller, mystery, and horror elements. The pieces all fit together perfectly from the plot to the characters. Even the ending left me feeling satisfied. I’m a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and parts of this had a Star Trek meets horror feel right down to the engrossing mysteries.
Loved it – great pacing, interesting plot. Mystery! Suspense! Who-dunn-it and why? An excellent story unfolding in space, and inside the protagonist’s own head. I was entertained, and will read more of Joe Hart, for sure.
In the not-too-distant future, a neuroscientist who is losing her young daughter to the same mysterious disease that killed her husband must make a wrenching choice: either embark on a secretive NASA mission in the hopes of curing the disease, or stay on Earth with her daughter for the little time she has left before the child’s memory is entirely gone. Obscura is a smart, satisfying novel about space travel and the future of humanity, and it also happens to be an intelligent examination of addiction taken to its most terrifying extreme. A locked-room mystery for sci-fi fans that will have modern readers saying, “Beam me up, Scottie.”
don’t usually read sci-fi – this takes place in the future and much of it on a space station, but I really liked it. Good characters and lots of action plus an interesting story.
I haven’t read one of Joe Hart’s books that I didn’t like. This is no exception. Despite all the techo-science, it has a human element at its core, which makes you love the characters and will for them, even though, or perhaps because, they’re flawed. An excellent read I highly recommend.
Putting my super-cheap three month Kindle Unlimited membership (thanks to Goodreads) to its best use meant staking out around 30 books I wanted to read anyway, but had not yet spent the cash for the Kindle or credit for the Audible to add to my library. A few of my choices sounded iffy, but I was certain Obscura would be a winner. Every social media site I visit screams this book at me, as “a perfect match” for a sci-fi and thriller reader like Donna.
I can’t express just how wrong they were. All of them.
I chose the Audible version, because my long commute lends itself well to listening. I am perhaps four hours into Obscura and I can’t take another moment of this narrator destroying this book. Is it a decent story? Who the heck knows? Certainly not me, because who can concentrate with Christina Traister’s pretentious voice assailing their ears? All I can hear is her weird over-enunciation of every single word and her “awwd” PNW-styled vowel switch with every word like conscience, which awwdly comes up quite a bit in a book about a neurological disease like Losian’s. *sigh*
Additionally, I read science fiction FOR THE SCIENCE. The fiction is necessary, since a lot of the plausible isn’t quite here yet, but a girl can dream, am I right? This futuristic sci-fi book is way too light on the science and pretty heavy on the drama.
One question, because I’m definitely not up on the addiction lingo: Do people really call hydrocodone pills “hydros”? Every time I heard that all I could think was Gillian was chugging a bottle of water.
Aggravation and annoyance across the board. It wasn’t for me, but that’s okay — it was free! On to the next KU choice on my list, fingers crossed this one won’t have a narrator that tries way too hard. I want to settle into something intriguing, and sadly Obscura never even hit interesting for me.