I enjoyed this, it would easily be a four star read for someone who likes the premise. But it just wasn't my thing out of the gate. ( )

His soul was tethered to mine by blessed spice and a solitary word.

With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips by Beth Cato was really intriguing and feels like the start to a novel, which means I didn't want it to end there! The story felt like it was just getting going. I'd love to learn more about this universe. Very interesting ghost story. ( )

Imagine meeting all "what if" versions of yourself. That is what happens in this short story by Sarah Pinsker, where the main character and all side characters are also named Sarah Pinsker, or variants thereof. A Sarah Pinsker has discovered a way to connect parallel universe and to let many of the Sarah Pinskers connect.

This is all very weird in an exciting way until one of the Sarah Pinskers end up dead. Since they are on an island with only Sarah Pinskers apart from a few innocent hotel workers that means that, unless it was an accident, there is both a dead Sarah Pinsker and a murderer Sarah Pinsker. Something that the main Sarah Pinsker (who is an insurance investigator by the way) finds quite disturbing.

The premise and story is very exciting. Who doesn't want to know the "what if" of their lives? Unfortunately, it being a short story, there is not too much time investigating all the options. Also, it's about a fictional (?) Sarah Pinsker, not the reader.

Still a very enjoyable short read. ( )

Sarah Pinsker, an insurance investigator, receives an invitation to a gathering of other Sarah Pinsker's from many realities. The author takes a fresh angle on the multiverse idea to question who our lives diverge, how apparently minor decisions and events can shape our lives - and how, perhaps, doors are rarely fully closed to us. Clever, thoughtful, funny and a great mystery story on top of everything else.



A truly superb tale, an outlandishly excellent premise perfectly executed ( )

Novelette en inglés (6000 - 17500 palabras), que está por encima de relato corto (novella (entre 17.500 y 40.000 palabras) y novela (>40.000 palabras). El título es un juego de palabras bastante ingenioso con el relato de Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, que originalmente tenía el nada apropiado título de Ten Little Niggers (la novela más vendida de la señora Christie, Diez negritos, con 100 millones de ejemplares nada menos). La premisa del relato me enganchó La autora del relato, con su nombre y apellidos, Sarah Pinsker, es invitada a una convención en la que todas y cada una de las asistentes son ella misma, pero de otras realidades paralelas. Han sido invitadas por otra versión de Sarah Pinsler que es física y ha descubierto cómo comunicar esos mundos paralelos. Durante la convención una Sarah muere y otra Sarah, que es investigadora para fraudes de seguros, tiene que hacerse cargo del caso porque no hay nadie más , y el desarrollo y los diálogos están muy bien llevados. Hay un par de saltos de razonamiento que no me convencen pero en general el relato es muy entretenido y fácil de leer, además de ser interesantísimo hasta el final. ( )