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Mixer: on a Strand
SECRETS KILL. Miracles go wrong. Just when you’re resigned to it, an ordinary life can turn…extraordinary.
MERRI DWYER is a moderately successful businesswoman with a pleasant life, only slightly quirky friends and an odd habit of driving south when she’s not paying attention. You’d never guess she’s heir to one of the world’s greatest treasures, one that can alter the course of humanity. Even she doesn’t know. Below the surface of her ordinary life, nothing is as it seems. Family hides secrets, friends are foes, and dreams wait to awaken a long forgotten truth.
ONCE UPON ANOTHER LIFE, Merri wasn’t Merri. Once, she rode the Strands of life, threw miracles, and hobnobbed with Angels. Then a miracle went wrong, and she fell, and forgot, and became ordinary, for awhile.
NOW, SHE’S ON THE LAM with her blind date and a police detective—and she doesn’t trust either of them. Plagued by a stalker and a dimension-spanning conspiracy she damn well refuses to believe, Merri wants answers. Preferably, before someone kills her. Battling self-doubt and a nagging headache, Merri begins to piece together an improbable, remarkable truth that leads her on a quest to save a powerful family relic from falling into the wrong hands.
WEAVING TOGETHER WIT, intrigue and string theory, Mixer: On a Strand is a fast-paced inter-dimensional mystery rich with strong characters, humorous dialogue, and a touch of romance on the run. Mixer is a timeless hero’s journey, Visionary Fiction for a new age, that illuminates the miraculous in the ordinary and explores the relevance of destiny in a world of free will.
MERRI DWYER is a moderately successful businesswoman with a pleasant life, only slightly quirky friends and an odd habit of driving south when she’s not paying attention. You’d never guess she’s heir to one of the world’s greatest treasures, one that can alter the course of humanity. Even she doesn’t know. Below the surface of her ordinary life, nothing is as it seems. Family hides secrets, friends are foes, and dreams wait to awaken a long forgotten truth.
ONCE UPON ANOTHER LIFE, Merri wasn’t Merri. Once, she rode the Strands of life, threw miracles, and hobnobbed with Angels. Then a miracle went wrong, and she fell, and forgot, and became ordinary, for awhile.
NOW, SHE’S ON THE LAM with her blind date and a police detective—and she doesn’t trust either of them. Plagued by a stalker and a dimension-spanning conspiracy she damn well refuses to believe, Merri wants answers. Preferably, before someone kills her. Battling self-doubt and a nagging headache, Merri begins to piece together an improbable, remarkable truth that leads her on a quest to save a powerful family relic from falling into the wrong hands.
WEAVING TOGETHER WIT, intrigue and string theory, Mixer: On a Strand is a fast-paced inter-dimensional mystery rich with strong characters, humorous dialogue, and a touch of romance on the run. Mixer is a timeless hero’s journey, Visionary Fiction for a new age, that illuminates the miraculous in the ordinary and explores the relevance of destiny in a world of free will.
269 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 10, 2012
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April 23, 2013
I actually finished this book a while ago, and have been agonizing over how to rate it. I wish I could rate it in two different sections - 4 stars for the first half and 3 stars for the second. I’ve decided to come down on the high side, since the first half definitely deserves at least four stars.
This book started off with a really interesting new concept, introducing the supernatural ‘Mixers’ who change the courses of peoples’ lives by affecting sets of events, all based on probability. If they’re not careful, they can be sucked into the earthly humans whose lives they’re tangling, and forget their previous existence as Mixers. The Mixers’ story quickly becomes intertwined with the story of a woman whose family conceals a tragic mystery.
The first half was really well done, and I enjoyed the growing mystery, the flash-backs to earlier periods in the family’s history, and the parallel tracks of Mixers and the main protagonist. I appreciated that I was able to track the jumps in time; it’s difficult to present changes in time without confusing and losing the reader, and it was well done. The main storyline seemed to be the rescue of the Mixer who was trapped in an earthly body, how that rescue affected the protagonist, and how the original changes wrought by the Mixers in her life-line continued to unfold.
But I had some problems with the second half. So many un-foreshadowed twists were thrown in that I not only felt lost, I felt like the train of the story was lost. The supernatural Mixers ended up having mundane and human motivations. I ended up feeling like some major questions had not been answered:
And in the human world, how were an entire police department so misled as to keep putting out ever-changing bulletins implicating people in a variety of crimes that didn’t happen, and why did they want to do that? And why did they suddenly stop and apparently never bother the suspects again at the end? How come, if people have been involved in this family and its secrets for generations, Everybody has been lying all her life to poor Merri: her aunt, her fiance, her employees, everyone knows everything but her. She ends up looking naive and dumb, when she started out seeming capable and in control.
In the end, the Mixers’ story didn’t seem to be that important. The story of Merri and her family took precedent, and we never find out what happens in the Mixer world. I ended up feeling unsatisfied. This does, of course, leave room for future volumes.
I think perhaps the chaos and disorganization of the second half was more disappointing to me because this book started out so strong. I did appreciate the appendices at the back that give pronunciations and list the characters, settings, etc.
So, great work in the first half - issues in the second half, but possibly over-lookable in order to experience the world of the Mixers.
This book started off with a really interesting new concept, introducing the supernatural ‘Mixers’ who change the courses of peoples’ lives by affecting sets of events, all based on probability. If they’re not careful, they can be sucked into the earthly humans whose lives they’re tangling, and forget their previous existence as Mixers. The Mixers’ story quickly becomes intertwined with the story of a woman whose family conceals a tragic mystery.
The first half was really well done, and I enjoyed the growing mystery, the flash-backs to earlier periods in the family’s history, and the parallel tracks of Mixers and the main protagonist. I appreciated that I was able to track the jumps in time; it’s difficult to present changes in time without confusing and losing the reader, and it was well done. The main storyline seemed to be the rescue of the Mixer who was trapped in an earthly body, how that rescue affected the protagonist, and how the original changes wrought by the Mixers in her life-line continued to unfold.
But I had some problems with the second half. So many un-foreshadowed twists were thrown in that I not only felt lost, I felt like the train of the story was lost. The supernatural Mixers ended up having mundane and human motivations. I ended up feeling like some major questions had not been answered:
And in the human world, how were an entire police department so misled as to keep putting out ever-changing bulletins implicating people in a variety of crimes that didn’t happen, and why did they want to do that? And why did they suddenly stop and apparently never bother the suspects again at the end? How come, if people have been involved in this family and its secrets for generations, Everybody has been lying all her life to poor Merri: her aunt, her fiance, her employees, everyone knows everything but her. She ends up looking naive and dumb, when she started out seeming capable and in control.
In the end, the Mixers’ story didn’t seem to be that important. The story of Merri and her family took precedent, and we never find out what happens in the Mixer world. I ended up feeling unsatisfied. This does, of course, leave room for future volumes.
I think perhaps the chaos and disorganization of the second half was more disappointing to me because this book started out so strong. I did appreciate the appendices at the back that give pronunciations and list the characters, settings, etc.
So, great work in the first half - issues in the second half, but possibly over-lookable in order to experience the world of the Mixers.
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