Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress

Caro Soames-Watkins' promising career as a neurosurgeon has gone up in flames due to an online trolling campaign. She receives a job offer from the Nobel prize winning great uncle she barely knows; being able to work and ultimately publish research findings could revive her career and she'll be able to keep assisting her sister. Moving to the Cayman Islands to his compound, Caro discovers much more than a career resurgence; it could be the answer to everything.

I was highly impressed by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress' ability to distill the science down to where I could mostly understand it without turning to hand waving the science bits. (I am usually pretty okay with hand waving the science bits, see also Stargate: Atlantis and most of Heinlein's works, so it was nice to read actual science.)

Despite the hard sci-fi surrounding it, this is, at its heart, an afterlife story. Unputdownable and well written, I'd recommend this to everyone.

I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.