Ok, these aren't huge spoilers, but I don't want to inadvertently give something away to someone who would rather wait until they've read it. This is his first novel, and has several 'first novel issues'. I'll also keep an eye open for future novels from this author. The Hollywood screenwriter will erase all of the boring bits, possibly change some major story points that I have issue with so that character choices seem more plausible, and the film will probably live up to the promise of the premise. If so, I'll be first in line for tickets. I finally had to just force myself to get through the last few chapters, just to finish it and give it a fair shake. Towards the end, it became more of struggle to get it finished, and I found myself often finding excuses not to read it. They work, I'm entertained, move on.Īll in all, I was entertained by the book, hence the 3 star review instead of 1 star. I don't care about the quantum mechanics behind the teleporters in Star Trek. I don't need to know how Luc Skywalker's lightsaber works. If you're an average reader who just enjoys science fiction, it can be a bit tedious at times. If you're a theoretical scientist, then I'm sure this book is amazing to you. I'm sure he wanted to try and base his future science on sound principles and then show how this future science wasn't that far-fetched. The author is clearly a huge fan of quantum theory and wanted to fully explore different possibilities with this novel. The story is also bogged down.a lot.by unnecessary scientific explanations. The surprises this book delivers are less 'Oh wow, that was unexpected!' and more 'What? Why would he do that? That doesn't make any sense.' I'll get more into that below, under the 'SPOILERS' section of the review. Normally, it's a good thing when a book surprises you, but not here. The story meanders a bit, and takes unexpected detours. There's a lot of promise here, the book just doesn't fully live up to it. It didn't take me long to realize I was not going to enjoy this particular journey. I preordered the book and jumped straight in once it arrived. I very anxiously awaited this novel, based off of early reviews that raved about how this was the next Ready Player One.

The punch escrow by tal m klein