A review by linneahedvig
Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint

3.0

I really enjoy the way Charles De Lint creates communities of characters. This book pretty much revolves around Christy Riddle, an author fascinated by folklore, along with his born-from-a-computer girlfriend, Saskia, and his "shadow" self, Christiana (this is going off the idea from Jung that we all have a shadow self who is the opposite of who we are, but the book furthers that idea by saying this person, who exists partly in the kind of fairy-world and partly in the real world, can develop their own personality as well). Other strange and interesting characters come in over the course of the book. This is silly, but I think one reason I really like De Lint is because his characters are all kind of the same and you know they're all kind of based on himself and that's nice because it's predictable and makes the characters likeable in a strange old-kind-of-annoying-friend kind of way.

This book was fun because of the people, but the concept behind it was also pretty cool and spooky, if someone cliche--people getting sucked through their computer screens into a crazy computer world made out of binary code. I don't know, there's something about a gang of friends researching a problem and then going out to save the world (or possibly die) together that's just really my style.