2.5 stars 
 "We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglass." 
 My first audiobook of 2017! Honestly, the low(ish) rating is probably more to do with the narration than the book itself but I did also have problems with the book. I disliked the main character (and all the other characters tbh). I'm not really sure exactly why I disliked him so much (though the cheating has something to do with it) but yeah, not great. 
 But the thing that annoyed the most was probably the 'explanation' of the science aspect. I find, in science fiction, it's far, far better to not fully explain something, or make it so that the characters themselves don't fully understand it, than to explain it in a way that doesn't actually make sense. Maybe that's just me being fussy though. I found all the explanation of it pretty tedious to be honest, I would have much preferred it if it had never been explained and we'd just gone with the story. I also just maybe didn't like being explained science by the main character, it felt like being talked down to. I don't know, I'm probably being stupid. 
 Honestly, I guess it just kind of felt like the author has absolutely no scientific knowledge, read one article as research for this book, and then felt really smart teaching all his readers about Schrodinger's cat. I just don't think it helped the story. 
 Looking at Blake Crouch's other books, I see that many of them all thrillers which doesn't surprise me at all - this kind of felt like a thriller or a crime novel. It felt like someone who doesn't know sci-fi trying to do sci-fi. Maybe this would make it more appealing to people who are regular readers of thrillers and crime but that just really isn't my sort of thing. Maybe that's the problem - a lot of people seem to like this so maybe it's just not-my-thing masquerading as my-thing. 
 I definitely liked the basic concept, and I felt like the plot could have worked if it had less annoying characters but who knows? 
 I may have disliked some of the characters because of the way they were voiced. I do think I would have liked this better if I'd read it as a physical book rather than an audiobook. 
 I found the narrator was doing his dramatic voice, which I found kind of comical, except that it went on for 10 hours. Plus, whenever a woman talked, he did his dramatic woman voice, which was even more ridiculous. 
 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I didn't find this so difficult to listen to, and it wasn't so boring I stopped paying attention, but then I also wasn't invested enough to keep listening to it when I wasn't travelling to uni every day over the Christmas break. It was a bit of fairly readable (listenable?) mediocrity.