'Teleworld' reflects real life
This is a very personal review. Teleworld, the second in the Colorworld series, was the right book at the right time for me. There have been books that speak to me on a very personal level like Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, which I read every year because it reminds me why capitalism is wrong, and Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, which captures the spirit of adventure and has a major character turn that always surprises me. However, there have been no stories in my life that have duplicated the feat that Teleworld accomplished. Rachel E. Kelly has somehow taken the story of my life as it is happening now and written it before I could live it.
Certainly, the details are different, but the major plot points and relationships are there, and it is a bit scary. The relationship between Gabriel and Wendy touched a very deep chord in me as I recognized the exact thing I am going through. While the outcomes are most assuredly different, I was glad to get another perspective on what could happen and what could have been. The surrealism of reading my life in a book that I didn’t write is not lost on me. I can only hope that, in some way, Teleworld will have helped me to cope with what I know is coming. I cannot say whether or not this story will touch you in the way that it has me. I can say that there is enough in this volume of the Colorworld series to make it worthwhile regardless of your current life status. Now, the question is whether or not I have the courage to read the next in the series. |
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