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I was torn between snickering at their close encounters and cringing for them when the truth is out. This is a slow burn sexy romantic read with a CLIFFHANGER ! I'm one click buying book 2 now :D I'll be calling him Ahab :D- so funny !
What a great novel with such interesting personal perspectives on Jesus' resurrection from different characters. Excellent read and I so want to get the movie now...!
| For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-Cycle An interesting look into how Misty Copeland got to where she is today and her desire to inspire others. Overall, I thought this was a good book. The writing itself wasn't super strong. The timeline as presented was a bit erratic and confusing. It was also repetitive at times. The writing was pretty simplistic. But I thought the general story was interesting. It was cool to get a peak into what it takes to be a professional ballerina. I also liked Copeland's focus on inspiring others and helping make the path easier for ballerinas and dancers of color. On the whole, the writing wasn't the greatest, but it got the point across and the story itself was interesting. Includes a full-color photo spread in the middle of the book. |
I could have saved myself a lot of time if I had known from the start of this that 'The Motion of Puppets' was a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice.
This was a bizarre novel, Kay falls in love with a puppet standing in a closed-up Antique Doll store she passes on her way home every day. One night, returning home by herself she sees a light in the window and investigates. She awakens in the body of a puppet and must abide by the strange rules and customs of the other puppets she meets there.
Meanwhile, Kay's husband is frantic to find out where she's been. His work, a translation of a biography of a pioneering photographer, is put aside and in the face of increase suspician from the police and estrangement from old friends and colleagues, he tries to find her.
There were interesting character studies here, and a decidedly creepy aesthetic with the use of the puppets and the mythological elements. I hated the ending, however. It cut short the momentum of the story and left little room for resolution. I can handle a 'bad' or a 'sad' ending, but I need more than what Donohue was offering.
This book was amazing. The language gives the story a surreal, dream-like feeling. Everything is described so poetically. This is because the first person narrator is unreliable as hell, but that makes his perspective no less beautiful. Phillip's world has something just slightly off about it--besides the fact that he and his 12-year-old friends speak much more maturely than how children their age usually do. Phillip lives in a reality of his own that is often abstract and ethereal.
I love the way the book incorporates the themes of movement/motion, light, darkness, weight, and childhood. When it comes to light and luminosity, I liked the way it was a metaphor for Phillip's mother's bipolar disorder. She's "luminous" and up with lots of motion, followed by "seething" darkness and immobility. The way Phillip describes his various states of being using words like sound, gravity, mass, and chemistry make his world that much more abstract and surreal.
I feel for Phillip because we're similar in a lot of ways, right down to the effect of mental illness in our lives and loved ones. I want him to get what he wants, but I also know that he's a mentally ill child who doesn't know what's best for himself. Yet he's smart in a million other ways, and it's his unusually calm rationality that makes the book so interesting. The way these children straddle maturity and immaturity makes the story mythical and wickedly beautiful.
