The Soul of the Schoolboy--Uncle (Reverend) takes his nephew to see old silver coin. They empty pockets to enter museum. Boy drops off magnet, string, junk. A monk/magician enters with them. Colonel Morris is in charge of the place, a skeptic. The boy, curious about a switch, plunges them all into darkness. When the lights come back on--the coin is gone. The "thief" is Colonel Morris who used the darkness to test his theory that the silver coin was a fraud. He used the boys magnet and string to fish the coin out of the display case, proving to himself that the coin was bogus--silver coated but iron, not silver, inside. Clever
Follows Sadie and Sam (Mazer) from childhood to mid-thirties when both are feeling old and a bit out of it in the gaming world. Characters are well-rounded, develop throughout the novel in interesting way. Plot is involved but sensible. Not a single, "Oh, come on!" moment. The book could have been faster paced. Odd, since the main topic is video games which are not for their speed of engagement and Gabrielle Zevin clearly knows her video games. Recommended by Michael Connelly in an interview. He also has Bosch pick up the book in his novel, Resurrection Walk, as Bosch tails a possible witness to a crime as she moves through a bookstore. Sadie and Sam do not get together at the end, which is good. Marx killed by homophobic nutcase who really wants to kill Sam, but Sam isn't there. Marx is father of Sadie's child.
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