Review of 'Finder' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I enjoyed this one immensely.
Emma Bull's writing comes across in the way some graphic novels do: a lot of attention to setting and atmosphere. The characters are all a bit larger than life - more vivid - but still very believable.
The premise: the world of the elves recently appeared and super imposed itself on parts of our world. Elvish influence leaks out and changes the human world, creating humans with strange talents - and vice versa, with Elves developing human traits.
For example the main character, Orient, is a human with an uncanny knack for finding things. His best friend is an Elf woman called Tick Tick who is a fantastic mechanic. Both of them no longer fit into their original lives, and have moved to the Borderlands between the Elf and human worlds, a sort of chaotic, bohemian, anything-goes frontier where the realities of the human and …
I enjoyed this one immensely.
Emma Bull's writing comes across in the way some graphic novels do: a lot of attention to setting and atmosphere. The characters are all a bit larger than life - more vivid - but still very believable.
The premise: the world of the elves recently appeared and super imposed itself on parts of our world. Elvish influence leaks out and changes the human world, creating humans with strange talents - and vice versa, with Elves developing human traits.
For example the main character, Orient, is a human with an uncanny knack for finding things. His best friend is an Elf woman called Tick Tick who is a fantastic mechanic. Both of them no longer fit into their original lives, and have moved to the Borderlands between the Elf and human worlds, a sort of chaotic, bohemian, anything-goes frontier where the realities of the human and Elf worlds overlap.
Then somebody starts pushing a drug that's supposed to turn humans into Elves. And people start dying - both humans and Elves. Latent tension between the inhabitants of the borderlands start growing, and Orient is caught right in the middle.
This is a bit of a tear jerker. It's sad. But it's also one of the most beautiful depictions of a platonic friendship I've ever read. Definitely one I'll read again.
