Rob, Winter, Veronika, Nathan, Lycan & Lorelei were interesting to follow with varying degrees of rootability. I’ve read that Mira is the main character of the short story that spawned this full length novel, so I’m glad I got to meet her & Jeanette here. I was so invested in her story & her’s had me sad there was no epilogue at the end.

It seems no one checked that out before dropping her in at CryoMed & all she wants is to see her love, Jeanette. Mira, is one of the “bridesicles” and as if it’s not bad enough that she’s long dead, she’s stuck going on “dates” with men in hopes of being reanimated though she’s gay. There’s a technology that allows them to be awakened for “dates” in brief intervals but they’re immobile and confined to their coffin at the creche. They inhabit a future world where mathematically beautiful women who’ve died before their time are basically put on ice until such time as some wealthy man will have them repaired and resurrected. Rob, Mira, Winter, Veronika, Nathan, Lycan & Lorelei. In this story we follow a group of people who become more entwined as things unfold. So much so, that I put the author’s other book Soft Apocalypse on my library list because such a thing was mentioned by one of the characters in this book and I am eager to read more. In this daring and big-hearted novel based on the Hugo-winning short story, the lovelorn navigate a world in which technology has reached the outer limits of morality and romance. And Mira, a gay woman accidentally placed in the heterosexual dating center near its inception, desperately seeks a way to reunite with her frozen partner as the centuries pass. Veronika, a socially-awkward dating coach, finds herself responsible for the happiness of a man whose life she saved against his will. There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sells everything to visit her, seeking her forgiveness but instead falling in love. LOVE MINUS EIGHTY follows interconnected lives touched by these dating farms. Summary: Years in the future, dead women in cryogenic dating farms await rich, lonely suitors to resurrect them and take them home.

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh