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This book was very successful at being creepy AF. I was definitely much less comfortable with shadows at night while I was reading it. The physics are sketchy but if you can suspend disbelief it's a pretty cool premise. The pacing and suspense were great -- I could have read it all in one sitting if I'd had time. HOWEVER - there were two majorly not awesome things about the book, one of which nearly made it unreadable. The first was an annoying amount of contrived foreshadowing. The book was creepy enough all by itself -- I didn't need the author constantly telling me this was the last moment a character would ever be happy before the horrors began; it was like every other paragraph! Secondly, and much worse, was how this book was so. very. much. written for the male gaze. The attention to the female characters' bodies is constant, and the internal monologues of all the male characters thinking about how sexy the female characters are are just ridiculous. There is unending commentary on how surprising it is that female scientists could be so hot! Apparently none of the male characters had bodies worth commenting on. It was so over the top, I almost put the book down multiple times. This would be a MUCH better book without all that BS and I could have rolled my eyes much less.