Today’s post is on MIddlegame by Seanan McGuire. It is 523 pages long and is published by Tor. the cover is a Hand of Glory burning. The intended reader is someone who likes Frankenstein, urban fantasy, and stories told out of order. There is mild foul language, no sex, and violence in this novel. The story is told from third person close of the different characters as the story moves. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the dust jacket- Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
Review- This is one of the most incredible books I have ever read. To put it simply this is McGuire’s Frankenstein, as she is telling the story of alchemy and made people and magical science. The twins Rodger and Dodger are created to embody the Doctrine of Ethos, which is basically one of them is all language and the other one is all math. Between the two of them they can describe the entire world and control it. Which is what the man who made them wants to, he wants to control the world. Reed is a very good villain, as a mad scientist should be, but he is as hollow as a made creature. The plot is following Rodger and Dodger as they grow up and manifest into the Doctrine. The story is not told in order, it skips and starts and restarts and as you go through the book you will discover why and that is part of what makes this book work so well. McGuire has won a lot of awards for this book but in my opinion she did not win enough for it. She created something so incredible, she has recreated Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's likeness but has taken it to another level. If you have never read any books by McGuire then I would strongly recommend you try this one. It is absolutely amazing, the writing is incredible, and the story is breathtaking.
I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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