Review: Completely different, totally absorbing and amazing book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
I knew, within the first page, that I was going to enjoy reading this book. It was funny, in a self-depreciating kind of way that makes you laugh with the character, not at the character. Dimitri has quite an unusual outlook on life but then, he has quite an unusual life! It is also quite a lonely life, never having had anyone else in his life, for more than a few hours, other than his father. And when he lost his father as a teenager, he was suddenly thrust into this life as the genie bond now ensnared him. And there was nothing he could ever do about it.Dimitri has quite a casual approach to life. He lives in the house he grew up in and unless he is doing his genie thing he does nothing important. He eats, sleeps, plays video games, has casual hookups and basically stays on the periphery of the conscious world, where no one sees him or knows him or notices anything he does. Which is a good thing because if someone saw his kidnap or murder another person then he (and Karl) would have a problem. So when he realizes that he wants to see Syd again he knows he has a problem - he just has no clue what it is or how to deal with it - because in his life he has never wanted to see any human being again. Never.There are so many things I could talk about but to do so would spoil some of the joy/sorrow/confusion/WTH moments you get with this book as you see something through his eyes, as you realize how very alone he has been. This book was worth reading from beginning to end and again and again. It is going to be one of those books where the more you read it, the more time you spend with Dimitri and Syd, the more you learn about them, their world and how different it is, or isn't, from our own.I believe there are more books to come in this series, which I look forward to, and to anything Ms. Kaye decides to share with us.