With some cool bumps and bounces into intriguing “what if ?” Territories . This was my first book by this author — I look forward to diving into more of his sci-fi. The characters, both the main folks and the supporting ones, were particularly well drawn, funny, human and created with a respect and understanding that I sometimes find lacking in Appalachian settings, clear-eyed thoughtful, incisive with a pretty solid grounding in the history of area. He seems as intrigued in the archeological quirks of the zone as by the ideas explored in particle physics which figure into the “time fluxes” in the story. I felt the narrator handled the challenges story and of the region’s characters (as time went back and forth) really well.
If I’m going to be fussy, which I invariably am, there were a few places in story that could have maybe been just a bit less brutally detailed, BUT, that’s just my own personal taste, and honestly it was often more about my own impatience — to see what was around the corner. Maybe I shouldn’t presume to judge pacing in a time flux story, particularly when it was so enjoyable.