Ether Ore: Awake2-Cn

My first review of this unusual novel was written after I had doggedly plowed through only the first few chapters. At that point, I thought I would never pick up the book again. Luckily, though, I did. For I found an extremely engrossing story.More witches (see Black Body, Turk's 2nd book)! And again, different witches. And the plot picks up and begins to move faster and faster down into a dreamlike nightmare of different worlds within different worlds. Contrary, rebellious, devious Melody is also a lonely and lost adolescent. When her plotting to get sent to Mars (oops, Marz) actually succeeds, she finds a dreary reality that she wishes to escape even more than the previous. Yet when she actually BECOMES one of the ghosts sighted on the ore fields, she discovers that all adventures are not fun. A time of successively increasing terror ensues.This is an amazing piece of inventive plotting and imaginative world-building, with Turk's totally unique and eccentric syntax adding to its aura. And its ending is as cathartic and poetic as any I have ever read.The beginning of this book may be a bit rough to swallow, but builds course-by-course to become a gourmet experience.