Cassy Campbell

This book was very cool. Cool in the fact that it was like Star Gate, and all the science talk was really in depth and interesting; it gave the book a real wow factor. After reflecting back on the book it seems to be a sci-fi, multiverse "world", the plot being both saving the multiverse and romance with a few laughs along the way. The overall execution of this idea was really good, the different worlds were interesting and the writing was easy to follow. There were a few places that the story lost me though. First off there was so much information and background I felt rushed to keep up with it all. For instance: a world class neuroscientist with the ability to cross space/dimensions travels in a group from a top secret government agency called DEPOT...But that is not all. She is battling with the regret of a past incident that terrorizes her dreams, but that is not all. She is still bitter over her ex and this keeps her from any relationship she could have with her new partner, who is hot and smart and her best friend, but that is not all. Hell exists and demons are on the war path. There was just so much that this book throws at you, so it is never boring, but it is one struggle after another for the characters to contend with until the very last chapter when the actual defeat of the protagonist comes down to a game of tag, obviously not literally, but comparatively to the rest of the struggles, that is what happens. With all of this plot and adventure the characters that fill the pages of the novel are interesting, each is very different from the next. At times, these characters begin to feel almost like stock characters though: the leader, the joker, the tech expert, I could just as easily be naming off the characters in Transformers. Is this a bad thing? I think it depends on the person, I did not mind it. lastly, some of the sciency jargon got confusing only because it is so foreign to common day speech that it would lug the story down; it really only happens in a few places but I noticed it. The book had a lot going for it and it does a lot of things well, like creating new worlds wherever the team goes, but something in the narration that pulled me away from the story.The thing about this book is that it was a sci-fi thriller and a romance, each of which the author did a great job of writing for but it never really did both things at the same time. The narration was so disconnected. It seemed like a second or even third hand account of an omnipotent narrative so it was hard to connect fully with the world and characters.… (mer)