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It's not often that I buy a book thinking it's something completely different from what it actually is, and still end up giving it five stars.

I wasn't in the mood for anything that was already on my Kindle, and I felt like something amusing, so I thought, "That steampunk Wodehouse pastiche What Ho, Automaton! was funny. I'll get something else by the same guy." I glanced over the Amazon reviews for Resonance, and one of them described it as a "romp", plus it was getting lots of stars, so I grabbed it.

It's not a romp. It's not funny, really, at all, except for moments here and there. What it is is a really, really good technothriller which gripped me almost continuously from beginning to end. (I say "almost continuously" because my attention did drift very slightly when a couple of extra viewpoint characters were used near the middle.)

Chris Dolley pulls off a few remarkable feats here. Firstly, he has the characters provide a series of completely different, complex explanations for the strangeness that's going on in their lives, and makes them all sound reasonable. Secondly, he makes an uncommunicative, almost autistic, obsessive-compulsive man who deliberately leads a boring, predictable life his main character, and then keeps me on the edge of my seat through the whole book while I cheer for the guy. And thirdly, he writes an ending that didn't let down the rest of the book.

The premise, when we finally learn what is actually going on, doesn't bear close scrutiny as science or even a self-consistent system, but as a fictional premise it worked well for me. Certainly it was no worse than anything Michael Chricton uses, and Michael Chricton is the author I was most reminded of here.

Even when Chris Dolley isn't funny, he's good. I'll remember that.


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Resonance Baen Book Chris Dolley 9781416509127 Books Reviews

This is the complete review as it appears (http//ianwoodnovellum.blogspot.com/2015/02/tuck-everlasting-by-natalie-babbitt.htmlat my blog dedicated to reading, writing (no 'rithmatic!), movies, & TV.

When I first heard of this title, it was confusing to me because 'tuck' or 'tucker' in England and Australia, means food. Was this a story about the 'horn o' plenty' I wondered? But no, it simply means that the Tuck family is everlasting! Ever since then I've been intending to at least watch the movie if not read the story, but I never got around to either until now. Having listened to about two-thirds of the audio book, ably read by Barbara Caruso, I have to announce that I was not impressed.

This rather short story is about Winnie Foster who, when we meet her, is contemplating and discussing (with a nearby toad, who frankly seems rather reticent about venting an opinion) her desire to run away. Soon after this, in the middle of a small wooded area (which her family owns) near her home, she meets a boy who is enjoying the water from a spring which runs out from under a youthful-looking tree. Jesse, the boy, refuses to let Winnie have a drink.

As a mysterious man in a yellow suit appears in the area, asking questions, Winnie learns why she wasn't allowed to drink. The water is a fountain of youth, and if she drunk one drop, or even drank one drip, but not if she was drenched with one droop, she would be forever preserved at the age of ten, never growing old, incapable of dying. Jesse tells her that if she waits seven years and drinks then, she and he can be married and travel the world together forever. Winnie eventually dismisses this idea, grows old and dies (I am not making this up - Natalie Babbitt is!)

I gave up on this about two-thirds in because it was boring the living waters out of me. One of the biggest problems was Jesse's proposal. Jesse only appeared to be seventeen, In reality, he was, I don’t know, in his eighties or something? It’s a bit vague - at least in the part to which I listened. But he was, at any rate, considerably older than Winnie. This is a common problem - common these days in vampire stories - where writers stupidly think that if a person looks like they’re a teenager, then they must have the mentality of a teenager and behave just like a teen, longing for other teens, both socially and amorously, regardless of how long they've actually been living.

It’s moronic and makes those writers look like idiots. Other than Charlie Chaplin, what rational, intelligent eighty-year-old would actually want to marry a seventeen-year old who, smart and personable as a seventeen-year-old might be, has done very little living, has little experience of the world, has a fundamentally different mindset, and has so much maturing and growing to do? With some charming exceptions, teenagers are essentially as well as legally juvenile and not really that appealing to older people - except perhaps on a purely sexual level, so eww!

That aside aside, the story wasn't that well written, and the plot was trite and predictable, so I can’t recommend this one.
Such an interesting tale! Not only is it a wild ride, but it is full of insights about so many things and human nature. Very glad I picked it up, thank you Richard Bartlett. And thank you Chris for creating such a masterpiece.
Didn't finish this. Bought it because I had read other Chris Dolley books and loved them but this was just too confusing on so many levels. It started off fine but when you got to the multiple Analises, parellel worlds and resonance waves I just couldn't cope. Gave up on it halfway through. Sorry, Chris, I hate to do that but it was giving me headaches.
What science fiction is all about... Exploring concepts that have a basis in reality. Great storyline and makes you wonder about the possibilities of just how much your decisions you make each day can cause ripples in the lives of the people around you. I would like to think that we all are important in this world in our own little way by the decisions we make or don't make.

Can't wait for the next book!!!

Thanks for a pleasant evening...
I love sci-fi and fantasy. I read Mr. Dolley's book about moving to France and really enjoyed it. The story line is unusual with the premise of multiple other dimensions of our earth, inhabited by basically carbon copies of us. It describes some of the down falls of big business interests taking over political agendas on the different countries of earth resulting in turmoil and the danger of destruction to all of us. I love the characters, because they are "characters' with very human responses and reactions to stress and anxiety. A little of everything and a lot of fun to read.
This book presents an interesting take on the concept of multiple universes which is the main reason I got the thing. The main character starts out as obsessive compulsive and basically unsympathetic, although he does get more interesting in the last half of the book. I experienced an intense dichotomy with this book. I was interested in the story, but it never really engaged my mind. It was never clear if the author meant it to be character driven or lead by the sequence of situations. I am glad I read it even though I am left with mixed feelings about it.
It's not often that I buy a book thinking it's something completely different from what it actually is, and still end up giving it five stars.

I wasn't in the mood for anything that was already on my , and I felt like something amusing, so I thought, "That steampunk Wodehouse pastiche What Ho, Automaton! was funny. I'll get something else by the same guy." I glanced over the reviews for Resonance, and one of them described it as a "romp", plus it was getting lots of stars, so I grabbed it.

It's not a romp. It's not funny, really, at all, except for moments here and there. What it is is a really, really good technothriller which gripped me almost continuously from beginning to end. (I say "almost continuously" because my attention did drift very slightly when a couple of extra viewpoint characters were used near the middle.)

Chris Dolley pulls off a few remarkable feats here. Firstly, he has the characters provide a series of completely different, complex explanations for the strangeness that's going on in their lives, and makes them all sound reasonable. Secondly, he makes an uncommunicative, almost autistic, obsessive-compulsive man who deliberately leads a boring, predictable life his main character, and then keeps me on the edge of my seat through the whole book while I cheer for the guy. And thirdly, he writes an ending that didn't let down the rest of the book.

The premise, when we finally learn what is actually going on, doesn't bear close scrutiny as science or even a self-consistent system, but as a fictional premise it worked well for me. Certainly it was no worse than anything Michael Chricton uses, and Michael Chricton is the author I was most reminded of here.

Even when Chris Dolley isn't funny, he's good. I'll remember that.