This is a hard one to rate. Flux is one of those books best enjoyed reading in one or two sittings. The plot and mystery have you hooked and putting it off just breaks the tempo of the story. I for sure, would have completed it in a day if I hadn't been so busy with Life stuff these past few days. IDK if it was that, or something more integral to the writing that had me feeling a bit disappointed when I finished this. I had this thought "is that it?" when I turned the last page.

The first 50% is really great. The mystery is intriguing and I was ready to eat it all up, however, my main issue is with the execution of the story. A lot of the plot is just the character realising how to fix stuff in the last 50 pages and just speed-running a happy ending. A lot of the mechanics of the plot are left unexplained. Time travel and how it works is not mentioned at all in a book literally about time travel. The whole deal with the TV show was lost on me. I was waiting for some big plot twist that would tie in the relevancy but there really wasn't anything to it, which disappointed me a lot.

Overall, this feels like an incomplete draft of a novel. Something that could have been really good. It tries very hard to take the Christopher Nolan and Interstellar -esque route but fails epically in that aspect. Maybe it's because this is Chong's debut. Books with unsatisfying conclusions are generally a 3 star rating on GR. Take from that what you will.