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A review by elusivity
Tinker by Wen Spencer
4.0
3.75 STARS
Frivolous good read.
Tinker is an 18-year-old sexy genius of physics & engineering, living in an intersection between fantasy & science fiction, in an alien dimension populated by astoundingly beautiful elves.
Tinker is plucky heroine, very much a vehicle for the reader to vicariously enjoy what it's like to have astounding intellect and luck and adventure, not to mention, saving the day multiple times despite incredible naievete, inexperience, and youth. The elves, etc, were well-conceived in that they'd continuously encountered humanity down the centuries via naturally-formed dimensional gates in caves, thus accounting for the many stories and mythologies all over the world, not to mention the occasional offspring.
Overall, fairly enjoyable. Recommended.
Frivolous good read.
Tinker is an 18-year-old sexy genius of physics & engineering, living in an intersection between fantasy & science fiction, in an alien dimension populated by astoundingly beautiful elves
Spoiler
, who were once human a long time ago, but bioengineered their race to gorgeous immortality via magic millennia ago. Head elf of the area falls in love with her, turns her into an elf. Meanwhile, a similarly immortal race from another dimension, the oni, over-ran and in famine because they do not practice population control, has infiltrated and plots to takeover the elves' planet. She gets kidnapped and forced to make a dimensional gate to oni's dimension so they can formally takeover. She tricks them instead, destroying the gate to the human dimension, in effect, leaving her slice of human world stranded in the elven dimensionTinker is plucky heroine, very much a vehicle for the reader to vicariously enjoy what it's like to have astounding intellect and luck and adventure, not to mention, saving the day multiple times despite incredible naievete, inexperience, and youth. The elves, etc, were well-conceived in that they'd continuously encountered humanity down the centuries via naturally-formed dimensional gates in caves, thus accounting for the many stories and mythologies all over the world, not to mention the occasional offspring.
Overall, fairly enjoyable. Recommended.