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kellywriting's review
4.0
Unique take and a fun frolic
I've often shied away from fairy tale retellings, because so often it feels as derivative as the category name implies - you can tell who will be good and who will be bad and it just throws me.
NONE of this is true in Strung. I fell in such love with the cover that I decided to give it a read, and the first few chapters gave me that same "oh, there's all the names, here we go" feeling, but the world built here was so intriguing I simply had to give it time. Penny is an Automa, a human consciousness placed into a robotic body, with no memory of her past. To repay the debt of this resurrection, auts spend their first decade serving and performing for the institute that is developing this new technology. Of course...nothing is that easy.
The characters in Strung pop off the page, and while the names are familiar, they don't all fall into their traditional roles so you are kept guessing. The world feels familiar enough to immediately fall into, and the thought and detail layered on I loved. A few editing issues stood out, but they were spread well out and didn't hurt my reading. This was a ton of fun and has made me less skeptical of this genre.
I've often shied away from fairy tale retellings, because so often it feels as derivative as the category name implies - you can tell who will be good and who will be bad and it just throws me.
NONE of this is true in Strung. I fell in such love with the cover that I decided to give it a read, and the first few chapters gave me that same "oh, there's all the names, here we go" feeling, but the world built here was so intriguing I simply had to give it time. Penny is an Automa, a human consciousness placed into a robotic body, with no memory of her past. To repay the debt of this resurrection, auts spend their first decade serving and performing for the institute that is developing this new technology. Of course...nothing is that easy.
The characters in Strung pop off the page, and while the names are familiar, they don't all fall into their traditional roles so you are kept guessing. The world feels familiar enough to immediately fall into, and the thought and detail layered on I loved. A few editing issues stood out, but they were spread well out and didn't hurt my reading. This was a ton of fun and has made me less skeptical of this genre.
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