Narcissus Is Dreaming

by Michael Takeda

Overview

What happens when a shapeshifting alien, incapable of feeling emotion, falls in love?

Banned from Earth, Shapers live hidden among us. When Earthman Thomas Echo breaks Dahlia's heart, the Shaper's revenge leads to its capture by a mysterious man known only as Rush, the head of a secret government agency. Forced to comply with the agency's demands or be "cleansed", our hero/heroine must use all its resources in order to escape. Yet complications arise when the Shaper's discovery of Rush's secret binds their fates together in an unexpected way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939056054
Publisher:	Pink Narcissus Press
Publication date:	05/14/2014
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.35(d)
Age Range:	1 - 17 Years

Editorial Reviews

03/17/2014
Pink Narcissus editor-in-chief Mambert falters with this peculiar short novel. Shape-shifting aliens called “Shapers” live in hiding among humans on a future Earth, few in number and highly sought after by intelligence agencies for covert operations. Shapers are assumed to be emotionless by humans and Shapers alike, until one Shaper named Dragon Cello begins to feel discomfiting love for a human partner. This kind of premise requires a deft hand and a deep and thorough understanding of one’s invented world; unfortunately, what little worldbuilding there is manages to contradict itself frequently. Shapers are uncomplicatedly compared, in their appearance and customs, to Native Americans, and awkwardly called “it” when not performing binary human gender. Stilted pacing and ineffective structure, and the use of clunking, cliché-ridden prose to depict paper-thin characters with no internal coherence or consistency, makes reading this book feel like walking through empty rooms full of half-assembled scaffolding. (May)

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