Rating: 
Summary: Pleasantly Strange
Review: This was a pleasantly strange book. I liked the idea that Matt can talk to inanimate objects and I liked Edmunds sense of magic and mystery, however - there were a few things that bothered me. For one thing, calling Edmund a witch seems a bit out of whack. I don't think that's an accurate description of what a witch is. The only other problem was how quickly things moved! I barely had the chance to meet Edmund and they were off like old chums from school. Then everyone has thier life turned upside down only minutes after meeting Matt. It was too fast, but the story was intruiging enough to keep me going and make me want to read other books. I think you'll like this book if you can read "through" things like this. You have to be able to ignore certain things and read around others. All in all I liked the characters and the storyline, I intend to get another book by this author soon.
Rating:
Summary: Pleasantly Strange
Review: This was a pleasantly strange book. I liked the idea that Matt can talk to inanimate objects and I liked Edmunds sense of magic and mystery, however - there were a few things that bothered me. For one thing, calling Edmund a witch seems a bit out of whack. I don't think that's an accurate description of what a witch is. The only other problem was how quickly things moved! I barely had the chance to meet Edmund and they were off like old chums from school. Then everyone has thier life turned upside down only minutes after meeting Matt. It was too fast, but the story was intruiging enough to keep me going and make me want to read other books. I think you'll like this book if you can read "through" things like this. You have to be able to ignore certain things and read around others. All in all I liked the characters and the storyline, I intend to get another book by this author soon.
Rating: 
Summary: Interesting, and Strange
Review: What a wonderful book! Nina Kiriki Hoffman has a flavor that I'd never tasted before. She took the story of a woman who communes with houses and man-made things, 'talks' to them, and therefore creates her own community and language in a world bereft (safely, for Matt) of people, and mixes her with a man so natural and earth like that HE can mix with anything of the earth, or organic and stay with it until it's 'fixed'. So you get the idea. Matt (woman) runs into the fix it man (his name eludes me right now) and becomes the next thing that he has to fix/ heal. This story was the first I'd seen where a man is compelled to help a woman in just such a way as Hoffman invents. I found my heart about ready to split at times, with the shear relief and cartharsis that this book/story provides. If you've ever been through something that really shook you, and you've wanted (even if just secretly) someone to somehow see the emptiness/the hole/the pain and somehow do JUST what you needed without you ever having to explain... someone that was so safe that they COULD be there. Well, that's what this book provides. Just so not to leave it out, Matt provides some healing too (predictably) and somehow things turn out differently than the young man has ever experienced before. Really interesting book. If you read it, I hope you like it as much as I have.
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