Helpful Score: 1
Fascinating take on---Oops---Can't say that, it will give the plot away. Hmmmm . . .
OK, then. A remarkable first novel. It could read a little more quickly, but the plot and characters just suck you right in, and you truly care about the events that complicate their lives, and you also care that the evil plotters, well, not all of their plots succeed!
From back cover:
Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world he's an obsessive-compulsive mute - weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it's the world that's weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others can't . . . or won't. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town. All at night when no one's looking. The world's an unstable place, still growing, sloughing off layers of reality like dead skin. One day you drive by, and it's changed.
Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. Sometimes she thinks they're spirit guides, sometimes she thinks she's crazy. But then they start telling her about Graham Smith and the men who want to kill him. That's when they meet.
So begins the story of two people whose lives are fragmented across alternate realities. And how they hold the key to the future of a billion planets. . . .
OK, then. A remarkable first novel. It could read a little more quickly, but the plot and characters just suck you right in, and you truly care about the events that complicate their lives, and you also care that the evil plotters, well, not all of their plots succeed!
From back cover:
Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world he's an obsessive-compulsive mute - weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it's the world that's weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others can't . . . or won't. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town. All at night when no one's looking. The world's an unstable place, still growing, sloughing off layers of reality like dead skin. One day you drive by, and it's changed.
Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. Sometimes she thinks they're spirit guides, sometimes she thinks she's crazy. But then they start telling her about Graham Smith and the men who want to kill him. That's when they meet.
So begins the story of two people whose lives are fragmented across alternate realities. And how they hold the key to the future of a billion planets. . . .
