From BlueInk Reviews. The full review may be found on their site.

British writer Neil Mavrick’s debut novel is an ambitious amalgam of science fiction, mystery, and romance.

Rachel Starr was a breathtakingly beautiful, talented young actress who, unable to deal with a violent rape that had psychologically scarred her years earlier, committed suicide in 2017. Almost 200 years in the future, budding quantum physicist Richard Stevenson sees an old newspaper clipping with a picture of Starr and becomes obsessed with a woman who died 164 years before he was born.

Creating a false identity as ecological activist Paul Lander, Stevenson travels back in time to 2010 and saves Starr from a horrific run-in with a serial rapist/casting director. The two fall in love, get married, and live an idyllic life: Starr becomes an award-winning actress and Lander travels the world “predicting” natural disasters and cautioning humankind about an impending ecological collapse. Then he suddenly disappears…

Connecting Obsessions is a shrewdly constructed page-turner: the great mystery of what will ultimately happen to Rachel and Paul – and all of humankind! – all but forces the reader to continue onward.

Small shortcomings aside, Connecting Obsessions is a highly entertaining, emotionally compelling read that will likely resonate stronger with romance readers than science fiction fans.

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