"Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained." summary courtesy of Goodreads
I absolutely loved this book, which I kind of expected because I enjoy many of the author's other books. I went with the Goodreads summary because admittedly, I don't think I could write something that made as much sense. Suffice to say, this story is about two people who are connected in an extremely powerful way. It's Order and Chaos, and not something as simple as Light versus Dark ---- these two have the power to completely remake the world.
McGuire does a great job of bringing some amazing characters to life in a real-world setting, so that you can actually suspend your disbelief pretty easily and imagine that these people could be walking around in the world. I loved how McGuire would go into so much detail about the power of math (in a way that made sense to me, a non-math person), but also how powerful language can be and how words can move the world. Absolutely a fantastic book.
And a funny little coincidence --- I read this book and finished it over the weekend, and then picked up and finished the Sonja Blue collection --- and both have a Hand of Glory in them, and used in a way to move the story along.
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