Max vs the Multiverse

Max and the Multiverse by Zachry Wheeler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It starts off with an interesting concept: one day a gamer named Max accidentally receives the ability to travel to a different part of the multiverse whenever he falls asleep. At first he goes to a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans and then some less radical worlds before he ends up in a world much closer to Star Trek's Federation.

And then he gets embroiled in a plot over some MacGuffin. Really the only thing that saves it is his companion is his cat, who gets an artificial body and the ability to talk in a British accent. It's not really that funny for a "comedy." It's not on the same level as Hitchhiker's Guide or the Rex Nihilo books I read before this. I don't even think it's as good as my own book Chet Finley vs the Machines of Fate. Mostly because other than Ross the cat I didn't really warm to any of the characters. Zoey is just unpleasant and Max is a blank and the other one is...the other one. And really, the whole multiverse thing with Max really has no payoff. It doesn't really help in the end or anything. The MacGuffin is at least not a pure MacGuffin as it has some use, just not a lot.

I'm probably going to pass on the sequels. That is all.

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