A review by anjreading
The Chaos Function by Jack Skillingstead

2.0

Well, despite cranking the speed up to get this book over with quicker, I did finish it, so there’s that. This is a mediocre thriller with a sci-fi angle. Olivia is a journalist working in Syria when her new boyfriend is killed after following her into a dangerous situation. It just so happens that she’s in a secret, ancient death chamber with bizarre technology that allows her to link with a machine and change the events that just occurred. However, Olivia’s accidental resurrection of her boyfriend ends up setting off a chain of events that pushes the world to the brink of extinction via biological and nuclear warfare. Every time she tries to make different choices using the Probability Machine, things get worse. In general, I’ve found that women can write good male protagonists (at least from my own female perspective), but it’s a very, very rare male author that writes a good female protagonist. Skillingstead isn’t one of them.