All Their Minds in Tandem (Audible Audio Edition) David Sanger John Moraitis Quercus Books
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The setting is October 1879. The stage is New Georgetown, West Virginia. A mysterious figure by the name of The Maker has entered this small community and, almost immediately upon doing so, started entering the minds of the townsfolk. Townsfolk who are as curious as The Maker himself. Like Dr Umbründ, the pint-sized physician with a prodigious capacity for sin; like the three sisters in the house on the hill - one stern, one wild, one mysterious; like the tavern's semimythical siren, The Bird, who plays spellbinding music from behind a black velvet curtain and whom no patron has ever laid eyes on; like Odell, a youth with dreams and ambitions that his craven disposition will forever prevent him from seizing and who has spent the entirety of his erstwhile existence under the crushing heel of Clay, New Georgetown's lead cad and chief alpha male.
As we enter these characters' lives and lightly tread our way through their brains, their bedrooms, their backstories and beyond, we will see what it is they all hope for and hide - and learn just why The Maker has chosen to meet them.
All Their Minds in Tandem (Audible Audio Edition) David Sanger John Moraitis Quercus Books
This is a strange and ambitious book that promises great things, and instead delivers something else entirely.The first part of the book feels like a long drawn out, and slightly frustrating, trailer for story that never really happens. The book blurb (see above!), with all its talk of “The Maker” fits perfectly with the first chapter, but they both seem totally set apart from the rest of the book. It’s as though they were written as a statement of intent by the author when he started, but the book itself took on a different life as it was written, and the start was never adjusted to fit. In fact after the focus lavished on it in the opening scene, the title “the Maker” is barely, if ever, mentioned again. It doesn’t even really fit with the modest and unassuming character of Emerson as you get to know him.
What’s surprising is that while you’re waiting in vain for the dramatic fulfilment promised by the relentless teasing; quietly and slowly a moving, imaginative and compelling story emerges, almost despite itself.
Rather than an intimidating “mysterious figure,” Emerson is a complex and interesting character, rather beleaguered, and more saddled with his unusual talent, than wielding it powerfully. His motivations are as much a mystery to him as they are to anyone else, and one of the most interesting aspects of the book is his struggle to decide whether to use his skill to hurt or to heal as he tries to carve out a home for himself both in post-Civil War America, and in his own busy and invaded brain.
There are plenty of well-drawn and morally complex supporting characters in the story, from the sisters struggling to adjust to adulthood without parents to guide them, troubled Odell finding solace in music and his broken but guilt-riddled father. Although they sometimes feel more like clever sketches than fully developed characters, and the villain, Clay, is more of a cliché. The book is packed with evocative images and the threads of the story hold together well. Surprisingly the supernatural core of the book is very naturally and effortlessly described, making it believable.
Unfortunately the book’s end is almost as frustrating as its start. Emerson’s own story is wrapped up nicely in a beautifully imagined and realised set piece, but other plot arcs are left unresolved or simply anti-climatic.
It’s intriguing and unusual and definitely worth reading, but perhaps with adjusted expectations than those set up by the cover.
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All Their Minds in Tandem (Audible Audio Edition) David Sanger John Moraitis Quercus Books Reviews
This is a strange and ambitious book that promises great things, and instead delivers something else entirely.
The first part of the book feels like a long drawn out, and slightly frustrating, trailer for story that never really happens. The book blurb (see above!), with all its talk of “The Maker” fits perfectly with the first chapter, but they both seem totally set apart from the rest of the book. It’s as though they were written as a statement of intent by the author when he started, but the book itself took on a different life as it was written, and the start was never adjusted to fit. In fact after the focus lavished on it in the opening scene, the title “the Maker” is barely, if ever, mentioned again. It doesn’t even really fit with the modest and unassuming character of Emerson as you get to know him.
What’s surprising is that while you’re waiting in vain for the dramatic fulfilment promised by the relentless teasing; quietly and slowly a moving, imaginative and compelling story emerges, almost despite itself.
Rather than an intimidating “mysterious figure,” Emerson is a complex and interesting character, rather beleaguered, and more saddled with his unusual talent, than wielding it powerfully. His motivations are as much a mystery to him as they are to anyone else, and one of the most interesting aspects of the book is his struggle to decide whether to use his skill to hurt or to heal as he tries to carve out a home for himself both in post-Civil War America, and in his own busy and invaded brain.
There are plenty of well-drawn and morally complex supporting characters in the story, from the sisters struggling to adjust to adulthood without parents to guide them, troubled Odell finding solace in music and his broken but guilt-riddled father. Although they sometimes feel more like clever sketches than fully developed characters, and the villain, Clay, is more of a cliché. The book is packed with evocative images and the threads of the story hold together well. Surprisingly the supernatural core of the book is very naturally and effortlessly described, making it believable.
Unfortunately the book’s end is almost as frustrating as its start. Emerson’s own story is wrapped up nicely in a beautifully imagined and realised set piece, but other plot arcs are left unresolved or simply anti-climatic.
It’s intriguing and unusual and definitely worth reading, but perhaps with adjusted expectations than those set up by the cover.
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