Elsewhere
Ratings11
Average rating3.3
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Ratings11
Average rating3.3
"Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls "the key to everything"-and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can't help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? Jeffy and Amity aren't the only ones interested in the device."--Provided by publisher.
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This is another book covering the quantum alternate/parallel universes topic that has been a hot theme of late (having also recently completed reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch). While the action is non-stop I found the characters and set pieces somewhat irritating at times. This story swirled around a near perfect father, with the silly name of Jeffy, and his near perfect pre-teen daughter Amity. After the quirky “homeless” Ed leaves a mysterious package with Jeffy, telling him to never open it but keep it hidden and safe for a year, things soon spiral out of control. Jeffy and Amity will soon find themselves pursued by Deep State thugs, looking for Ed and the device contained in the mysterious package. Forced to use the device, Jeffy and Amity soon learn that other versions of their reality exist, most of them far more bizarre and dangerous than their home reality. While confronting one dangerous situation after another, Amity still looks to replace the mother that abandoned her and her father, Michelle, with another, better version. They must find help along the way in order to stay alive and reach a safe haven in a new reality.
