Fractured Infinity by Nathan Taveres

I thought that I would like this book a lot more than I did, but I did still enjoy it. I thought the plot was really fun and creative and I liked the characters, but the pacing was a bit off. 

This is a great book if you’re looking for a multiversal romp with characters who are morally grey and self-serving. That’s not a bad thing! I think too often modern media wants characters to be perfect people but that just isn’t the case most of the time. 

In a weird way, maybe because I was reading them at the same time, this reminded me of Stories of Your Life. They’re not that similar, but the way they both are generally based in a current-alternate-history-scifi setting had a similar vibe that was interesting to contrast. Obviously this is a novel, and Stories of Your Life is a short story collection, so there weren’t any specific connections, but the concepts felt related. 

Ultimately this book was a pretty short read that took me forever because the pacing was just… so weird. It was so slow in places and so fast in others. I felt like I was hearing too much about things that should’ve been wrapped up and didn’t hear enough about the important things, especially fleshing out character dynamics. This book should’ve been, like, a hundred pages longer at a minimum and I think that would’ve pushed it to a four or even five star read.

I would keep this a secret even if it rotted me from the inside out because I would launch a million asteroids into a million worlds just to keep him safe.