Chelsea
It's a little too thriller-y for me, and I think the premise worked better as a short story. I would have liked denser worldbuilding around how instancing works -- the book operates on Sliders logic, in the sense that this alternate universe only diverges from the real world in the circumscribed limits that are relevant to the narrative or can be used to make a point or allusion.
Like far too much contemporary literature, this book leans on the present tense to make the story feel more immediate. It also swaps between second-person and third-person to distinguish between two different kinds of POV, which I found annoying.
The themes are lovely, though, and richly explored! That just works better for me in a short story than a 350 page novel.
It's a little too thriller-y for me, and I think the premise worked better as a short story. I would have liked denser worldbuilding around how instancing works -- the book operates on Sliders logic, in the sense that this alternate universe only diverges from the real world in the circumscribed limits that are relevant to the narrative or can be used to make a point or allusion.
Like far too much contemporary literature, this book leans on the present tense to make the story feel more immediate. It also swaps between second-person and third-person to distinguish between two different kinds of POV, which I found annoying.
The themes are lovely, though, and richly explored! That just works better for me in a short story than a 350 page novel.