Toby D. (bookswapper) reviewed on 2/7/2006 + 188 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This book was VERY STRANGE but engrossing. Just trying telling someone what it is about, not very appealing - a man driving home from work stops to pick up a homeless man. Within hours, bizarre stuff has happened - his wife gets pregnant and gives birth and the baby is take away in a plastic bag and left by a drain pipe in a nearby park. The baby is found and adopted by some people in the neighborhood, while only the father remembers the strange incident with the homeless man and how the baby originated. The story gets stranger - the child can dream about what other people wish - and when he grants the wishes, terrible things happen to fulfill the wishes. Amazing how ORS can get into the minds of people with such different backgrounds and voices. This book is splashed in color and vibrancy, with twists and turns in every chapter. Not at all predictable, I had no idea where the book was going, dragged out in the undertoe and surfaced near the end. I didn't like the ending, but not because it wasn't well written.

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