All right, I had time to discuss this with book group and decided something. This book was okay as written. It got it's point across etc.

BUT.

What would have taken this and made it a really influential, impactful, talked about book would be if it had been made so that each "jump" is it's own novella (think Wayward Children size book) with alternating chapters from Ash and the Edward from that world.

The book as written needs more depth. Ash feels awfully generic and there was just...there is SO much that could have been discussed in this book that just...didn't.