Review: Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel

Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel

Blurb from Goodreads:

What would you give to relive the past?

Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four.

When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought seeing his daughter again.

Meanwhile, Maya embarks on a journey back to her own past in Japan, and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be exactly what they seems.

A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.

 This was fine but definitely not as interesting as I was expecting.  It was more science driven than I anticipated but that was fine.  It made sense in that way.  I guess I was just hoping to feel more from it than I did.  That said, the writing is excellent and the setting was unique.  

Lightbreakers comes out next week on November 4, 2025 and you can purchase HERE.  

"Let's go to Building D. It's best to just show him."

Nils nodded. "Noah, you're about to walk into a room you can't ever walk out of. Of course you can leave it, but you won't ever unknow it. Do you understand?"

Noah nodded, though he did not understand.