Did I like this? Not really. Was it entertaining? Somewhat.
Blake Crouch is not a great author for me, but that hasn't stopped me from reading each new book he puts out there. This book especially felt like the Colleen Hoover of sci-fi. It was fast and got the job done but maybe don't think too hard about the quality.
Crouch had me at for the first third or so. It was fun. But the problem is that our MC just gets more and more insufferable as the book goes on, until I was basically laughing at everything he said at the end. Logan has an inferiority complex because his mother was a genius, so as he starts to become a genius, he makes a BIG point of showing us how super smart and special he is. It just reminds me of that insufferable guy that no one wants to talk to because he's just so confident he's better than everyone else in the room.
The actual conflict of the book was intriguing enough but not so much the execution. My interest was piqued again when we got to the city in Montana, but took a sharp decline immediately after, which it never recovered from. For better or for worse, the climax of the novel really gave Michael Bay vibes. Crouch clearly wants a movie adaptation with all of these dramatic explosions and running and climbing, and I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but that was so damn boring to read. I was listening to that part on audio and was tempted to skim through the entire chapter.
Overall, it was fine. Would I recommend it? Not particularly. But reading Crouch's books are my attempt at showing I can read both sci-fi and male authors. This is not the last I'll read from him.