Review of 'Spirits in the Wires (Newford)' on 'GoodReads'
1 star
Going to predicate that I did not finish this book.
With SciFi, I can excuse things that are made up, but it seems that DeLint was taking things that already exist, and I understand, and telling me that my understanding is wrong. The only explanation that he can fall back on is handwaving magic.
The other thing that bugged me about this book is that it has been done better, and with a stronger feeling of magic in other works, most notably neuromancer. Neuromancer seems to have more or less the same plot, but the spirit starts as a baby, and you see the world not through its eyes, but the eyes of those contracted to help its birth. While this makes even less sense, I enjoy it more because the magic that occurs does not need to fight with my understanding of the world. It lives in its own …
Going to predicate that I did not finish this book.
With SciFi, I can excuse things that are made up, but it seems that DeLint was taking things that already exist, and I understand, and telling me that my understanding is wrong. The only explanation that he can fall back on is handwaving magic.
The other thing that bugged me about this book is that it has been done better, and with a stronger feeling of magic in other works, most notably neuromancer. Neuromancer seems to have more or less the same plot, but the spirit starts as a baby, and you see the world not through its eyes, but the eyes of those contracted to help its birth. While this makes even less sense, I enjoy it more because the magic that occurs does not need to fight with my understanding of the world. It lives in its own parallel universe.
