Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to the Mattacritic. This is Matthew Hemenway. I hope you are doing well. I am doing as well as I can. In this episode of the Mattacritic, I will be reviewing and analyzing the 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry that you can get off Amazon or Park Road Books. This book will deal with multiverse travel and be about a serial killer who kills the same woman several times. There is a newspaper reporter who gets involved with this. She starts to investigate this murder in her own universe, but she will find herself in another universe where she made different decisions with her life and that people, she knew have different iterations of themselves. She will be in several realities where she has only one cat instead of two. She will struggle to figure out what this all means. There is another man after the serial killer of Madison May. She and this man will team up and they end up having an interesting relationship. I do not mean a romantic relationship, but one where it is mutual. They both want to stop this person from killing the same person over and again. The book will show the idea of chaos and string theory. I will leave a link the Wikipedia page on this blog and the description below if you are watching the YouTube video. I will give you my rating at the end of this episode. I hope this episode will inspire you to read, watch, and learn.
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Rest of Review and Rating of the 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
As was mentioned before, there is a newspaper reporter who gets sucked into this multiverse travel adventure of a serial killer killing Madison May over and again. The name of this newspaper reporter is Felicity Staples. Felicity Staples will be the one to investigate the murder of Madison May. The normal crime reporter Levi is busy with another story and cannot investigate that story. Felicity Staples will end up tracking Clayton Hors who is the one that murdered Madison May in her universe. In her universe, Madison May was a realtor. She was working for a real estate company selling a house to Clayton Hors. He told Madison that he was from another universe which was true, but that he was there to protect her which was not true. Clayton Hors met Madison May in his own universe, but she was an actress who had an extraordinarily successful movie career. Clayton Hors is disappointed that Madison May is not an actress, but a realtor in this universe. He kills her in this universe and there was a point before this that he snapped. Clayton Hors has a taste for murder and does not matter if it is the same woman; he must fulfill that need by killing her over and again. This is not a thought-out murder; this is a crime of passion because he gets and will get disappointed by the fact that the Madison Mays, he meets are not what he thought she would be.
Felicity Staples is following Hugo Garrelly who killed his wife in Felicity Staples’ universe. This is what Felicity believes, and she ends up being surprised by what she ends up finding out down the road. Felicity Staples will get close to Hugo Garrelly and she ends up getting too close. Hugo Garrelly will give Felicity Staples an egg which acts as a totem which causes her to travel to another universe. She jumps to another universe and wonders what happened. There are some stories where a person can return to their original universe, but in this one you cannot.
A good example would be in Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 5, you go can go here to watch that episode. I will leave a link in the description below if you are watching the video on YouTube. The episode is called Dimension jump. Ace Arnold Rimmer tells his boss that he will test the device that will cause him to jump to another dimension or universe. His boss tells him that it is only one way, and you cannot come back. He understands that and does it anyway. You can go here to watch the trailer for Red Dwarf Season 4, and it will be in the description below.
I also reviewed Parallels for this channel and the only difference is that you could go back to your universe. It was great show; you can go here to watch the series. You can go here to watch the trailer. If you are reading this on Substack, I will have the trailer below this text.
These two series would not be the only ones. Marvel was known for that as well as well as DC. Spider-Man: No Way Home did that as well as the spider verse films. Star Trek in the original series had an episode called mirror, mirror. I could name several of different stories that have explored the idea of multiverse travel.
I will talk about chaos theory and string theory. I will read on Wikipedia and leave links to them in the blog. Please go here to read about chaos theory. Please go here to read about string theory. I will leave those links in the description below.
Clayton Hors will find other Maidson Mays that he is disappointed in finding. In one universe, she decides to do a TV commercial, and he ends up killing her. One of the other universes, Clayton Hors will find out she was spending time together with her best friend Zar, and he thought she was being a slut with hanging out with a guy and acting all sexy with him that was not her boyfriend. This is after she broke up with Trent.
Felicity Staples will get Hugo Garrelly to have her meet the people that is his group. They will meet at Soft Horizon Juice company, which they do not sell juice; it is a front to keep suspicious eyes off them. They were traveling between different universes. They knew that they must stop Clayton Hors from killing Madison May over and again. This will not be easy. Felicity managed to stop him from killing Madison who was at the lake with Zar, Jorge, and Liam in one of the universes.
Felicity Staples will be upset that she and Hugo Garrelly failed to stop Clayton Hors from killing Madison May in another universe. This will lead them going to another universe where it is believed that Clayton Hors will not kill Maddison May in that universe in that it will be the woman that is close to the one, he was attracted to. Felicity is not buying that.
Felicity met other versions of Gavin, one where he cooks, and other one that has a beard. It is one of those situations that she learns about the man that she will end up falling in love with.
Felicity Staples will land in a universe where she has two cats, this means she has both Percival and Joey. Percival is in all the universes that she travels too, but Joey is not.
As not to be revealed, nothing more will be revealed here. The story does reach the climax and will end in an ironic way. Someone will end up stopping Clayton Hors, but who ends up doing that? If you know the answer, please leave your answer in the comment section below.
I will give you, my rating. I give the 22 Murders of Madison May, a 10 out of 10. This book is a fun story, and I loved how Felicity Staples got pulled into this adventure of having to chase Clayton Hors and having to stop him from killing another Madison May. She did in one universe but failed in another. Felicity Staples was the only one that did stop him. Felicity Staples teaming up with Hugo Garrelly is an interesting team up and they end up helping each other out. As I said you want to watch Red Dwarf Season 4 on Amazon and watch episode 5 as it will help you to understand this story. Parallels is another good one to watch to help you understand this story. Please go here to check my review of Parallels Season 1. Felicity will have to figure out how to stop Clayton Hors from killing Madison May over and again. This is the only way; she will have peace and can rest knowing that she did that.
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