Amy 
fantasy
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory was a free Advance Reader Copy I picked up at the ALA Midwinter Convention. It's being released this week. I wasn’t sure whether I’d like it, but it came highly recommended. It’s a gritty family drama involving many moving parts which come to a head in the climax at the end.
There are quirky characters--psychics and mobsters and three generations of a family and government agents. The settings and the characters tend to all be less than comforting so it’s kind of an uncomfortable read at times. Yet, I kept wondering how things would turn out for one of the characters, so I kept reading. And it’s definitely not a book that takes itself seriously which I appreciate. At its heart, it’s about family. But, the best part of it was seeing how all the preparations played out in the climax. I really don’t have much more to say about it.
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