Review: Ida by Alison Evans

Ida by Alison Evans

Published January 1st 2017

How do people decide on a path, and find the drive to pursue what they want?

Ida struggles more than other young people to work this out. She can shift between parallel universes, allowing her to follow alternative paths.

One day Ida sees a shadowy, see-through doppelganger of herself on the train. She starts to wonder if she’s actually in control of her ability, and whether there are effects far beyond what she’s considered.

How can she know, anyway, whether one universe is ultimately better than another? And what if the continual shifting causes her to lose what is most important to her, just as she’s discovering what that is, and she can never find her way back?

I have some mixed feeling about this book.
The synopsis sounded amazing but the actual plot is kind of confusing. I really paid close attention, thinking I wasn’t reading it well enough, but it was just confusing to me. I don’t know if it’s just me or others have had the same problem but I just couldn’t follow along with the plot.
I loved the diversity of the characters. There was a lot of different aspects of diversity in this book and I thought that was pretty great. However, I couldn’t connect with the characters because the writing style is so plain and even a little emotionless at times.
I really wanted to love this book because it’s so diverse but in the end, it just wasn’t as good as it could have been. If you’re looking for a super diverse read, I’d say take a chance and pick Ida up. But this isn’t the highest quality of writing I’ve read.