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I don't want to take the time to write out a full review for this book, so here's just a few un-organized thoughts:

Sometimes it feels like the story is just a framework for Baxter to explain cosmological theories and principles of physics. This leads to very boring stretches in the book, like when the main characters are traveling through hundreds of virtually indistinguishable universes that differ only in their laws and durations (which the characters are somehow able to intuit based on being in the universe for a few minutes).

Perhaps as a result of point one, Baxter sometimes has characters thinking thoughts that don't seem natural for their background/characterization, for example, the Senator that sits and contemplates aspects of quantum theory.

The portrayal of humanity at large was a bit of a caricature. Sure, some of the events in the book would cause some wide-scale panic, but it seems like he goes a bit overboard here. By the end of the book you're thinking, "Gosh, if we were really like that than we probably should all be destroyed."

Honestly, I stuck to it, but I seriously contemplated just moving on to something else several times. The book seems to go on and on, and I was genuinely bored by about 75-80% of this book. I kept thinking "Life's too short to read a boring book for entertainment." I stuck it out, thought, and gave it a chance. The end of the book was actually fairly interesting and relatively engaging. If the book were about half its length, I think all of the story could have been told, and all of the points (philosophical, theoretical and political) could have been made, and the whole story would have been much more engaging.