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Fascinating, and very, very different.
Different from what I was expecting, and just different in general. You have definitely never encountered a pair of characters like Ollie and Mo, who live thousands of miles apart, and may never be able to meet. Oliver is allergic to electricity, but that's really just the surface of what's going on. And Moritz? Saying he has a pacemaker, so he is toxic to Ollie, well, again, that's glossing over things. Moritz has some crazy $#!% going on, frankly. It was ...more
Different from what I was expecting, and just different in general. You have definitely never encountered a pair of characters like Ollie and Mo, who live thousands of miles apart, and may never be able to meet. Oliver is allergic to electricity, but that's really just the surface of what's going on. And Moritz? Saying he has a pacemaker, so he is toxic to Ollie, well, again, that's glossing over things. Moritz has some crazy $#!% going on, frankly. It was ...more
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It is a bit hard to form an opinion of this book because there was just so much going on in it! At first I was bothered by the implausible science fiction elements - a boy who is allergic to electricity and one who has no eyes but can see using echolocation. But they seemed less gimmicky as they became an important plot point. Another thing I had some difficulty with was the character development. The romantic interest, Liz, seemed quite prickly, yet none of the other characters seemed to see he
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This was an odd book. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really great either. Just okay, I guess.
Oliver is a boy who can not be anywhere near electricity of any sort. He and his mother live, removed from society, in the forest of Michigan.
Moritz is a boy who depends on electricity to remain alive. He lives with his father in Germany.
The boys begin a pen-pal relationship with each other. How this starts, I can't exactly remember. I really expected there to be a bigger connection between the two than th ...more
Oliver is a boy who can not be anywhere near electricity of any sort. He and his mother live, removed from society, in the forest of Michigan.
Moritz is a boy who depends on electricity to remain alive. He lives with his father in Germany.
The boys begin a pen-pal relationship with each other. How this starts, I can't exactly remember. I really expected there to be a bigger connection between the two than th ...more
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