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Bushy Manjamas


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  • Sharing on Dec. 04, 2010
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    Wow. Sharing is a fantastical book that will keep you entranced for days - until whenever you finish it. You will ignore entreats from friends to go out and play, you will call in sick to work, you will not sleep! as you get drawn further and further into this amazing world created by the author. You will re-think your stereotypes of unicorns and cockroaches, and you will find yourself trying to Share with random creatures. I believe some people might even find themselves cleaning and cooking after reading this book. I read a hard-copy print of the book (I still prefer reading paper-and-ink versus electronic screen, alas!) and found myself bringing the printed copy with me everywhere. Then I decided not to go anywhere so I could peacefully finish reading about Charlotte’s physical and psychic adventures surviving in a sandy wasteland. The book is well-written, the plot is amazing, the ideas introduced are marvelous, but I am most impressed with the author’s perfect timing of plot maturation, character introductions, revelations of what’s going on, etc. Frequently, I find books to “move” either too slow or too fast. Worse, if I find the plot moving too slow or if I get at all bored with the story, even for a minute, I’ll get impatient (one of my faults) and skip ahead or read a little of the ending. Often this ruins the reading experience for me and then there is a chance I won’t finish the book. Not this book! I was so happy to read it and keep reading it without ever skipping forward; I was completely entertained the whole way through. I don’t want to give away any plot, one of the best things about this book is that I had NO FREAKIN’ IDEA where the story was going, and so I was very delightfully surprised by the book’s visionary fantasy marvelous science fiction circus of events. The sandy dune wasteland we are introduced to at the start is a mystery both to us readers and to the brave heroine Charlotte. As the story unfolds, truths are exposed; unlikely friendships are created between amazing characters; creative psychic phenomena intrigue us in increasing levels of power; the magnificent, sad, and awe-inspiring history of the books’ worlds is revealed; and the greater realities hinted at keep us hungering for more. This book is not for the faint-hearted. There is gore. There is sex. There is murder. There is destruction of entire worlds. And the author manages these “serious” topics with an oft-irreverent humor that might offend some people. WHATEVER. Those people possibly should not read this book, but those people probably don’t have smashwords accounts nor do I want to meet them, and so it does not matter. I am so happy that this is the first book of a series called “The Fold.” I would be crying if there was no sequel because I am dying to read more. I can’t wait. I want to see what Pip’s Cross is like. I want to see Charlotte's character grow. I want to meet new strange creatures doing what comes naturally: shifting, burning, making, forcing, building, traveling... In the meantime, I think I’ll re-read my soon-to-be-tattered copy of Sharing. I will clean my house and find innovative ways to cook strange foods. And I will no longer step on cockroaches.