S. L. Huang: Zero sum game (2018)
336 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2018
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world's puppet master. Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she's involved. There's only one problem... She doesn't know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.
Mostly action adventure with scifi accents. Cas makes a sympathetic protagonist, and there is some good character development. The background info about the scifi stuff leaves us wondering and wanting more, but that's a pretty minor concern since the action scenes are top notch. Fun read.
