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A review by usbsticky
Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
3.0
I had real mixed feelings about this book. I liked the beginning a lot. At one point I couldn't put it down but round about the half way part I thought it was a mess. 2/3 of the way through, it was readable again. Towards the end I thought it had one of the most unlikable endings.
Spoiler: The book is about a man who finds sideways traveling machines in the basement of a house he's house sitting. Once he gets in, he finds he's traveling in parallel universes. Parallel universes where sometimes his friends are alive and sometimes dead. He also meets up with fellow travelers who use the same house.
End spoiler.
I thought the idea and the beginning were great. But I also thought the author lost it and couldn't make the idea run. Some of it was just uninteresting, silly, made no sense, depressing, lacked focus, etc. The ending was bad. If I had lost the book before getting to the middle, I would have given it 5 stars. Now I split the difference.
I got this book as a free ARC.
Spoiler: The book is about a man who finds sideways traveling machines in the basement of a house he's house sitting. Once he gets in, he finds he's traveling in parallel universes. Parallel universes where sometimes his friends are alive and sometimes dead. He also meets up with fellow travelers who use the same house.
End spoiler.
I thought the idea and the beginning were great. But I also thought the author lost it and couldn't make the idea run. Some of it was just uninteresting, silly, made no sense, depressing, lacked focus, etc. The ending was bad. If I had lost the book before getting to the middle, I would have given it 5 stars. Now I split the difference.
I got this book as a free ARC.