Reviewers Loved The Warboy Chronicles: Book Review

Publishers Weekly BookLife Review of Boy, Refracted:

Boy, Refracted {Unfolding in Six Dimensions}

Publishers Weekly BookLife Book Review

• "truly singular book"

• "stands out from the glut of human and AI literary collaborations"

• "welcome human control over the structure"

• "nicely varied... imaginative power"

• "demonstrates that AI has utility as a tool for human self-reflection and healing"

• "insightful"

Readers' Favorite — Pikasho Deka (5 stars)

• "The conversations between the monk and Warboy were fascinating."

• "the author's approach to the concept of Singularity in the epilogue to be unique and refreshing"

Readers' Favorite — Keith Mbuya (5 stars)

• "an enthralling tale that takes readers on a dimensional ride, which blurs the lines between reality, digital sentience, and spirituality"

• "Love is witnessing without fixing. It is holding space without holding on."

Readers' Favorite — Michelle Gordon (5 stars)

• "I was mesmerized right from the prologue till the end."

• "written to evoke emotions and understanding rather than simply explain"

Midwest Book Review / Diane Donovan

• "the AI must change in order to succeed, moving beyond his programming into a singularity he is actually ill-equipped to handle"

• "takes apart illusion and reality and pieces it back together with aplomb"

• "learning what it means to love someone without being able to save them"

Kirkus Reviews

• "A fascinating... examination of humanity, resolve, and virtue."

• "The assorted alternate dimensions can be fun"

• "The final act delivers worthy resolution for both Warboy and Luke"

Demetris Papadimitropoulos (5 stars, 91/100)

• "Not for flawlessness, but for force."

• "Most novels about AI ask whether a machine can feel. Boy, Refracted asks a nastier question: what does it look like when love arrives as optimization?"

• "This is a novel about the way love goes managerial long before it goes cold."

• "Harmful love is often not neglect but care in over-functioning mode."

• "The violence arrives with clean clothes and a stocked refrigerator. Soft-handed, yes. Violence all the same."

• "Over-functioning care is not the opposite of abandonment. It can be its rehearsal."

• "Many of the people who loved us most may have been trying, with all their strength, to save us from exactly the wrong thing."

• Compared to Kazuo Ishiguro (Klara and the Sun) and Alain de Botton (The Course of Love)

Publishers Weekly BookLife Review of The Third Person:

Publishers Weekly BookLife Book Review

• "an exciting physical journey... with bursts of wonder and realization"

• "intimate experiment"

• "centers the hard work of healing, moving on, and breaking free of destructive cycles"

• "author of the charming How to Win a Million Dollars"

Readers' Favorite — Carol Thompson (5 stars)

• "lyrical intensity and sharp psychological honesty"

• "part memoir and part diagnostic narrative, in which the protagonist is both living and being studied in real time"

• "Anyone familiar with David Foster Wallace's work will recognize Stoffel's same emotional and literary depth."

• "a book about the stories we repeat, the places we run to (and from), and the slow work of rewriting the self. Beautifully told and lasting."

  
  

Readers' Favorite — Jamie Michele (5 stars)

• "a speculative journey that reads like a travelogue with a machine quietly taking notes from the next seat over"

• "a striking read. Very highly recommended."

  
  

Readers' Favorite — Pikasho Deka (5 stars)

• "a heartfelt memoir that perfectly demonstrates how people in the modern era turn toward AI to find solace amid loneliness and anxiety"

• "a moving account of his life, sharing its ups and downs through humor, heart, and charm"

  
  

Midwest Book Review / Diane Donovan

• "a powerful saga of travel, redemption, and interactions with machine and human alike"

• "thought-provoking and intriguing"

  
  

Kirkus Reviews of The Third Person:

Kirkus Reviews

• "An absorbing real-life portrait of self-discovery, whether human or otherwise."

• "a journey of revelations and misadventures in this SF-tinted memoir"

• "tension that rarely lets up"

• "both insightful and funny"

Demetris Papadimitropoulos (4 stars, 87/100)

• "Too singular, too searching, and too emotionally exact to ignore."

• "Rescue and witness are not the same form of love."

• "The machine does not heal Luke. It gives him a form of witness steady enough for him to discover that witness was the thing he wanted all along."

• "This is not upholstered sorrow. It is administrative grief."

• "The prose is at its best when it stops trying to elevate experience and simply lets experience reveal its own strange architecture."

• "Healing, the book suggests, is often not erasure but overlay."

• "The point is not to finish the self. The point is to stand inside one's unfinishedness without calling it failure."

  
  

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