This started off fun and engaging but lost steam midway through and never quite seemed to recover. I’m not sure if it was the lack of depth of the characters or the lack of explanation of the physics in the splinterverse, but it just didn’t do it for me.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in return for a fair review.

This was a really fun read for me, I usually don't gravitate to this kind of sci-fi story but it was really well done.

Splinter's Edge is about a main character suffering from mental health issues that finds himself in an insane situation. Feelings of Deja Vu is constant and he is so concerned that it is all related to his mental health struggles...but is it?

This is a type of sci-fi story modern audiences may be familiar with, while reading it, I felt a lot of similarities to Blake Crouch, with perhaps less accurate science. I am no expert in science or physics or anything but there were a few scenes or ideas that you do have to further suspend your sense of disbelief a little bit because it seems rather fictitious.

The characters for me were fantastic, I absolutely loved all of the characters and character types that were presented to us. They were fun, and odd but felt really realisitc. For me as someone who has suffered my own kinds of mental health struggles I felt that the main character was really well written. There is an AI character that I could see some people may get annoyed with, but I thought she was awesome honestly. I thought she was funny and a nice break in what is generally a bit more of a serious story.

My only real issues with this story is that I felt like the ending was a little bit cliche. It does a good job trying to set up this big multi-world universe but given how the rest of the book went, I thought the twists and turns set up in the book were pretty predictable. I also felt that for an alternate world with very different levels of tech, that the pop culture references were a bit too much. It reminded me a bit too much of a Ready Player One in that sense and not in a good way.

Overall I really enjoyed this read, it was very well done for an indie/smaller publisher. It's doing a pretty unique idea of trying to have this large shared universe via multiple authors, not many can pull this off with quality but so far, this is a really strong attempt. The editing was solid and there weren't a whole lot of grammar mistakes or errors.

If you are generally a fan of Sci-Fi thrillers or like indie/self publishes works then it's probably worth a shot with this one.