We are following the life of Jason Dessen. Nothing special normal family man who teaches physics at a university. He's married to Daniella, has a son named Charlie, and has regrets...who doesn't. But regardless he loves his family even if he takes them for granted. It all comes crashing down one evening when he leaves to celebrate an achievement for an old school mate. When he left little did he know how long it would take him to make it back home to his mundane life and what obstacles he would have to endure to get there.
This story was captivating. You can't help but love Jason through all of his good and bad decisions. He is us, we are him. I mean I am not an insanely intelligent physicist who regrets not doing more in his field. What I mean is he has a wonderful life but always wonders what if. What if I turned left instead of right. What if I didn't go to that party. What if I made a different choice. Where would my life have gone? Where would I be? You can't tell me you never had those thoughts, you are human we all have them. The problem is IF we didn't make those choices we wouldn't have what we have. Would it be worth it? Could you give up your family for success? You may say yes now but what IF it really happened.
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This book BROKE MY BRAIN. I thought I had it figured out and then *wam* another twist. I loved it! Jason is amazingly flawed. He has a wonderful, normal life but always thinks about what if he didn't have a baby with Dani. He gets his wish. He is kidnapped and thrown into a parallel world. A world where he didn't marry Dani, didn't have Charlie, where he didn't stop his research. A world where he is a recognized physicist but he is all alone. It takes him a while to figure out his kidnapper was him (what?!?!). The him from this world stole his life...very Fringe like. The parallel him created a box that can cross the plain between parallel universes. He can visit his "what ifs" and see how things would be different. All he wants though is to go back home. To go be with his wife and son...the ones he took for granted.
He makes friends and enemies along the way...more enemies than friends. He can't figure out how to get back to HIS world. He sees horrors along the way. Worlds ravaged by illness or natural disasters. Worlds where Dani dies, where Charlie dies, where he dies, where they didn't marry, where they never met. So many worlds. How can he possibly find his in an infinite number of realities. Meanwhile Jason2 is playing house with his family. I know its "him" but it isn't him and it really CREEPS ME OUT!
When he finally made it home I was so happy and scared. How was he going to fix this? Can he really kill a version of him and re-replace him? I kept thinking it was going to be like bizzaro land. Where Dani comes home to both Jasons and has to figure out which one is her husband. But they kill the wrong one. That is where my brain went. I was NOT expecting hundreds of versions of Jason showing up. How the...I understand some theoretical physics...like the very basics of the multiverse stuff but this blew my mind. Basically once he entered the box INFINITE versions of him were created. Each reality he stepped into or didn't step into created ANOTHER Jason that just wanted to get home to Dani and Charlie.
Taking care of ONE version of himself was enough but hundreds, how does one even begin to solve that. I am so glad Dani and Charlie realized the correct version but how do they stop the others. I was on the edge of my seat. He can't kill them all. They can't just keep running. They are all basically him, they think like him, they will find them. So imagine my surprise when Jason2 is dying and gives them the gift of the ampules. That option never occurred to me. The option for them to escape, together, to another universe. But how do they stop the gazillion versions of him from following. They stop it by HIM not making the choice. By giving the choice to the one variable that could end the insanity. Let Charlie choose. They walked out into a strange new world. One with hope and hopefully happiness because they are together and that is all that matters. I LOVED it!
SIDE NOTE - Please make this into a movie or at the very least a TV Show...and cast David Tennant as Jason. I don't know why but he feels like a good fit for the character.....
I received this book for free from Blogging for Books to read and give my honest review.
These are my daily musings.....
Reading Progress
| 08/12 | marked as: | currently-reading | ||
| 08/16 | page 10 | 2.0% | "Awww they seem so happy....I mean issues but happy" | |
| 08/16 | page 20 | 5.0% | "Hmmmmm this is odd...what's happening" | |
| 08/16 | page 30 | 8.0% | "WTF?!?" | |
| 08/16 | page 36 | 10.0% | "Ummmm I am so confused. Who is he? Were dani and Charlie a dream?!? What is happening?!???" | |
| 08/16 | page 66 | 19.0% | "Whaaaa....is it him...?!? Is it another him? A doppelgänger...?" | |
| 08/17 | page 88 | 25.0% | "Soooo is this like that show....the one where he can't figure out which is the dream and which is the reality. The one with Lucius Malfoy...Jason Isaac. Like he just needs to wake up? I think it was called awake. Sounds just like awake at this point..." | |
| 08/17 | page 104 | 30.0% | "Or is it a parallel universe thing....like Fringe...?" | |
| 08/17 | page 107 | 31.0% | "What?!? Why?!? But but she had nothing to do with this...." | |
| 08/17 | page 118 | 34.0% | "Omg, tha voice! Strange but familiar! Strange....but familiar! This is totally Fringe like! Although the flipping typos are about to drive me up a wall!" | |
| 08/25 | page 142 | 41.0% | "Really man?!?! I figured that out 20+ pages ago" | |
| 08/29 | page 206 | 60.0% | "This book is brutal. Poor Jason! He just wants to get home...." | |
| 09/02 | page 252 | 73.0% | "**POSSIBLE SPOILER** OMG...its going to come down to "no honey, I'm the real one", "no its me". Then one dies and we are like THANK GOD and then the ending is BAM wrong one. Right? Right?!?! That's what happens....I'm predicting it now...." |
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| 09/02 | page 256 | 74.0% | "WTF??? How...I thought it didn't travel in time, just parallel." | |
| 09/02 | page 259 | 75.0% | "What!??!?!?! WHat? Holy Crap....this book is breaking my brain...." | |
| 09/02 | page 266 | 77.0% | "Well this went in a totally unexpected direction...." | |
| 09/06 | page 287 | 83.0% | "yes...yes...yes! This book is giving me a f**king complex!" | |
| 09/06 | page 307 | 89.0% | "72....72 of them....holy...." | |
| 09/06 | page 314 | 91.0% | "I do not like this idea Jason. This is a bad idea. You are making choices FOR HER. This is all very Doctor-ish. I know what's best for you...but what about what I want. Argh!" | |
| 09/08 | page 342 | 100.0% | "What...whoa....this book messed up my brain. Talk about gaining a new perspective..." | |
| 09/08 | marked as: | read | ||
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