Lyda feels responsible for so much that even her new conscience, the angel Dr. Mikala’s death haunts Lyda because she feels responsible. Gregory slowly reveals what happened the night the drug’s creators overdosed and what happened to Lyda’s wife, Mikala. There is also a mysterious cowboy, under orders to follow Lyda and stop the distribution of NME 110.Īs if this isn’t enough, Lyda Rose also needs to make peace with her past. The Millies, a group of Afghani women who used micro loans to become marijuana dealers, are right behind her because they want to get rid of their competition. Lyda is not the only one on the drug’s trail. The trail of NME 110 leads her to a strangely peaceful prison inmate turned preacher who is giving the drug away for free, to give people a little peace as long as their supply is not interrupted. Though her doctor is very reluctant, Lyda gets her walking papers and a drug monitoring chip in her arm. Lyda believes that it was withdrawal from NME 110 that drove the girl to despair because it made her feel like the divine was leaving her. Lyda Rose, a neuroscientist, returns to the world after nearly a decade in a mental hospital after another inmate kills herself. One became a recluse, another was sent to prison, and a third (our narrator), went to an institution to deal with her addiction and hallucination. When its creators overdosed and one of them was murdered, the group shattered. Instead, an overdose of the drug causes sustained, realistic hallucinations of the divine. This drug was supposed to cure the neurological deterioration caused by schizophrenia. Sometime in the mid-2010s, a neuroscientist, a chemist, a lab tech, an IT geek, and a financier created NME 110. Daryl Gregory’s Afterparty lives in the vexed territory in between these two warring viewpoints. Prophets are schizophrenics and religion is a tool to comfort people. Non-believers will say this belief is a trick of our minds. Where does belief in a higher power come from? Believers would say that a deity makes too much sense. I received a free copy of this ebook to review from NetGalley, on behalf of the publisher.
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