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Spoonbenders
by Daryl Gregory
Spoonbenders was not what I expected it to be. The description on the flyleaf had me thinking this would be a fast-paced, action-packed story of psychic powers in the "real" world. Instead, this story builds more slowly to its climax. I was a little put off by the pacing at the beginning, but I'm glad I stuck with this one, as once it gets up a head of steam, it's quite good; I had a tough time even putting it down for the last quarter of the book, where it seemed like the story could end on the next page, but there were still several dozen pages left.
The Amazing Telemachus Family is both more and less than what it seems to be, and each member of the family gets their own alternating chapters, each of which develops the story of the family through both ongoing events and flashbacks to help fill in the picture of their past. The alternating perspectives are nicely done and illustrate well how what we think we see on the surface is not always matched by what is going on inside a person.
In addition to some interesting character work, the plot, once it starts to unfold, is a real grabber. There's some sex, some drugs, and while there's not rock 'n roll, there's mobsters, which might be more big-band in my head, but which makes for a decent substitution here.
This story does a nice job of tracing the coming-of-age and development of three generations of the Telemachus family, showing how family history and the experiences and personalities of our relatives interweave to help create and shape us. Plus, there's psychic powers! Spies! Shadowy government agencies! Mobsters! Casinos! And micro-lepton guns!
Give this one a chance; you won't regret it.
The Amazing Telemachus Family is both more and less than what it seems to be, and each member of the family gets their own alternating chapters, each of which develops the story of the family through both ongoing events and flashbacks to help fill in the picture of their past. The alternating perspectives are nicely done and illustrate well how what we think we see on the surface is not always matched by what is going on inside a person.
In addition to some interesting character work, the plot, once it starts to unfold, is a real grabber. There's some sex, some drugs, and while there's not rock 'n roll, there's mobsters, which might be more big-band in my head, but which makes for a decent substitution here.
This story does a nice job of tracing the coming-of-age and development of three generations of the Telemachus family, showing how family history and the experiences and personalities of our relatives interweave to help create and shape us. Plus, there's psychic powers! Spies! Shadowy government agencies! Mobsters! Casinos! And micro-lepton guns!
Give this one a chance; you won't regret it.