While the plot is not particularly original, the setting is and the story is solid and well written. It managed to hook me and I stole time from other things I had to do in order to see if it would end as I would expect. While I don't want to spoil anything of the ending of the main story, the romance side-story of the main character adds a few points of entertainment and it ends in a way that I found unconventional, with the two characters that flirted on and off along all the book, married to work.
One of the main selling points of this book is the scientific side, the story if set in a physics research centre in the US. While it is a pleasure to see some good science, it is not a fundamental part of the plot and there is absolutely nothing difficult to understand about it. ( )