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Nick doesn't really care anyway, because he wants to be where his wife is, period.

The book begins with Nick following the love of his life into the Ten Sigma program, without knowing what he's signing up for - at all. While this might sound strange at first, it works very well and is in fact a very interesting break in Brin's story. In fact, I think it's the best sci-fi I have read in years.Įchoes is the third installment in the series and it begins with a surprise: instead of Brin, the heroine of the first two books, this time her husband Nick is the main character. I also think Nick will be a very interesting character to add to the adventures taking place in the "real" world. If you don't demand your protagonists to be likable, this is a fascinating and awesome story of action, adventure, and psychosexual passions. I also liked Wang taking the time to make it clear that Nick wasn't nearly a nice a guy as he thought with his treatment of his high school girlfriend showing that he was always kind of a creep. I also really enjoyed his relationship to Cat and felt more for it than I ever felt for his relationship with Mary.

Wang manages to still write a fascinating and powerful tale about his experiences as he struggles to hold onto his memories in the face of the unrelenting brutality of the program. The fact he doesn't have anyone else he cares about or worries about as well as eagerly joins without bothering to question anything like, say, "Will I be able to see my wife in this program?" sort of undermines the concept.

It doesn't come off as romantic but creepy and bizarre. I have one complaint which I'll get out of the way first before getting on with my praise: Bluntly, I think this book suffers a bit from the hoops he has to jump through to do this as well as obsessiveness. I eagerly read this even though I missed Mary/Brin a great deal. So much so that after figuring out she faked her death, he jumped into the program himself. The third installment of the TEN SIGMA series switches protagonists from Mary/Brin to Nick, her husband, who wants desperately to be reunited with his wife.