Hit full stride by the end

I’m a huge fan of Dahners’ books. He writes well, invents highly imaginative scenarios from simple albeit earth-shaking scientific what-ifs. Underlying this he’s clearly a person of huge heart and unflinching human insight, and this emerges in his characters and the situations in which they find themselves

Technically, I found this book a little hard to get into. The first chapter confused me at first, but I caution that might just have been me, being a very busy, distracted time. The characters and story then steadily became more understandable and engaging from there

Although a familiar trope - an unlikely (but genius is always unlikely) character comes up with a momentous discovery/invention - this story breaks new ground with its two key characters. This perhaps presented some new problems in giving them flesh and blood in terms of mannerisms, reactions, speech etc - but it all worked by the end

I look forward to seeing where this series goes