This book started at a high point with a pretty cool idea and then went downhill in every imaginable way. I suppose it was enjoyable if a little (or a lot) predictable. But I can’t help give credit for the POTENTIAL!! The few glimpses we got of other dimensions were so interesting and so much could’ve been done with that. Blizzard world?? Ash world?? Give me more of that shit! Even the worlds where nothing was strikingly different but still uncanny were neat. So it was a pretty significant letdown when it went back to being a story about Some Guy who just really loves his wife. Like, that’s nice and all, but you gotta make us like her too and frankly we got almost nothing from her. Other than at one point, no joke, she said she “needed him insider her so badly it hurt”. Yikes.

My biggest gripe with the whole thing was the hilarious comedy of errors at the end. There are 1000 Jasons and you can’t think of anything else to do with that than have them go all Hunger Games? C’mon. If Jason(s) truly loved Dani, then they should’ve realized this was the perfect opportunity for a reverse harem for her. She wouldn’t have to ever work again! The perfect solution.

Instead they go on the lam to a different dimension. Fine. Whatever. My idea was better.

This sat at a solid 3.5 until one of the last lines of the book was Jason allowing his teenaged son to thought-build which dimension they end up in and, like, WHAT? He’s 15 years old!! And then the cherry on top is Jason looking at his son and thinking, wow he’s a MAN now. Sir, no he is not. He’s a traumatized child. Please get a hold of yourself.