*based on an ARC edition
Who wouldn't want to go through potential universes until they found the perfect one? The idea of string theory is that everything that can happen, does happen, and each possible occurence splits into another parallel universe. Ruby, angry and upset about having to move from California to Ohio (and who wouldn't be) leaving her almost boyfriend/really flirty friend George so she and her dad can move in with his new wife and her violent and possibly disturbed daughter, discovers a way into these universes. She just wants the perfect life. Away from her stepsister. Toward George. With the mother who died when she was four. So she starts on a path to finding the perfect life, even though all of us unfortunately know there is no such thing.
I really enjoyed this book. Ruby was fun to listen to, if not a tad pedantic, and she was likable and relatable. I found myself hoping that the next universe would be the perfect one for her, even knowing that it probably wouldn't end up that way. The characters were clearly and well drawn and the science that proliferated the pages was obviously very well researched. It was the science, and the fact that Ruby herself is so science minded that she has a math equation tattooed on the back of her neck, that made the story actually believable. Many stories about other universes and potential butterfly effects lose their way quickly in the quagmire that is that type of theoretical science. Relativity didn't lose its way, and I applaud that.
This is a definite recommend in my book.
Who wouldn't want to go through potential universes until they found the perfect one? The idea of string theory is that everything that can happen, does happen, and each possible occurence splits into another parallel universe. Ruby, angry and upset about having to move from California to Ohio (and who wouldn't be) leaving her almost boyfriend/really flirty friend George so she and her dad can move in with his new wife and her violent and possibly disturbed daughter, discovers a way into these universes. She just wants the perfect life. Away from her stepsister. Toward George. With the mother who died when she was four. So she starts on a path to finding the perfect life, even though all of us unfortunately know there is no such thing.
I really enjoyed this book. Ruby was fun to listen to, if not a tad pedantic, and she was likable and relatable. I found myself hoping that the next universe would be the perfect one for her, even knowing that it probably wouldn't end up that way. The characters were clearly and well drawn and the science that proliferated the pages was obviously very well researched. It was the science, and the fact that Ruby herself is so science minded that she has a math equation tattooed on the back of her neck, that made the story actually believable. Many stories about other universes and potential butterfly effects lose their way quickly in the quagmire that is that type of theoretical science. Relativity didn't lose its way, and I applaud that.
This is a definite recommend in my book.
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