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A unique concept with interesting results,

Overall, the book was pretty good, I think its important to take into account how it came about and the way it was written, The pacing was rather fast and meandering, which is understandable given its writing process, Likewise, there isn't much character development and I didn't feel connected to the characters at all, Many of them felt flat, but again that's understandable,

The story was certainly creative, combining puppets, magic mirrors, the power of promises, magic music boxes, missing brothers, talking badgers, deadly accidents, princes, queens, trinkets, and a whole medley of other things.
There is a lot going on and many elements at play, It was fun to see how all of the elements came together and played off each other,

When it comes right down to it, the book itself wasn't great in terms of writing or plot, but given its means of creation, it is pretty impressive.
It makes for a unique reading experience, In the end it is what it is, a little bit of everything that isn't super developed but has some interesting results, As usual, I did not look at the book blurb prior to selecting this story, Had I realized the idea behind the writing, and that Neil Gaiman shared authorship with “Twitterverse”, I never would have chosen it, I actually picked it up because of both the author Neil Gaiman and the narrator Katherine Kellgren, She did not disappoint.

However, the story DID disappoint, The best thing about it was Mr, Gaiman's opening line.

"Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, "We don't love you anymore.
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Wow, what a GREAT first line! Too bad everything that followed was discordant nonsense,

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Neil Gaiman, the BBC, andTwitterers Make Fiction


Awardwinning writer Neil Gaiman one of our MostCreative People started a new fairy tale on Twitterand the world wrote the rest of it.
Users tweeted lines for the story, helping it unfold on BBC Audiobooks Americas twitter feed, The nowfinished story has been edited and released as a free audiobook available at the BBCs site and iTunes,

How did the Twitter story, “Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry,” come about The plan for the crowdsourced project was inspired by the Royal Opera Houses Twitter experiment.
BBCAA sought out a twittersavvy author to kick the thing off, and found it in Gaiman, “Neil very generously embraced the idea right away,” says the projects moderator for BBCAA, Tara Gelsomino, “He crafted a doozy of a sentence and agreed to tweet it at our selected start time, despite the fact that he would be en route to China.
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After Gaimans start, users tweeted lines marked with a certain hash tag, Those were reviewed and the next bit was chosen, This continued, tweet by tweet, scene by scene, fromtoover eight days, until the story reached its conclusion, The BBCAA received about,tweets, with the final story includingtweets and a total of,words, There werecontributors including this writer, “It was thrilling and a tiny bit overwhelming,” says Gelsomino,

But is the final result of this experiment, “Hearts,” a good read Decide for yourself,
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Im all for interesting ways to write books, but using a game of “Twitter telephone” is a new one for me.
In fact, can we even call this book written by Gaiman at all Sure, hes great at these types of modern fairy tales like sitelinkStardust, for instance, but he only got the ball rolling on this story and let the internet write the rest of it.
Granted, he was the one who chose which segments to include next, to help guide it into some limited form of coherence, so maybe he “wrote” it after all

Its not that Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry isnt an utterly incoherent story its that it lacks focus at times.
Plenty of interesting subplots could have been explored but were quickly abandoned as the story switched over to a different writer, Im almost glad this book was as short as it was because otherwise, I dont know how much more of the plotline whiplash I could take.
Perhaps its a good thing for readers everywhere that stories arent normally createdcharacters at a time, Not that it cant be done, but that the longer scope of the project is lost in the changing points of view,

If anything, this book reminds me a bit of Forum RolePlaying stories, Each individual controls a character, and everyone writes a segment at a time to advance the plot, The problem with this approach other than people not committing to contributing is that each individual has an idea in their mind of where the story should go.
Rarely do those ideas match with the rest of the group, If this story were edited down to a few base ideas that Neil Gaiman would then use to create a longerform and coherent story, then maybe this experiment would have merit.
As it is right now, Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry displays the true randomness of the internet,

A crowdsourced story that has all the problems of a crowdsourced story, I give Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry,out of.
   This is a great tale about a young lady who needs to know herself better and correct some mistakes from her past.
It is an excellent adventure in the reflected world of the looking glass, This story is also a good story for young people to learn more about right and wrong, I can't say that I didn't like it, but, . . I didn't like it. I'm sorry. I'm so so so sorry, I love the idea of a mass writing one story, I love that it actually turned out to be a story and not a nonsense, but it kinda is a nonsense story and that bothered me all the way.
I just never ever liked this type of stories, Whats a hot, jumbled mess of a book, Now we know why twitter shouldnt write novels,

Katherine Kellgren was the Narrator, and she needs much more direction, and maybe some lessons from Xe Sands on how to narrate, She was mostly shrill, and her voices were silly,

.stars, and not recommended to anyone, A quick note this book is available here for free in audio format: sitelink sffaudio. com/p

"Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, "We don't love you anymore.
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Now that that is out of the way, have you ever played the game where one person starts a story and another person states the next sentence and it continues in that manner Well.
Neil Gaiman did this with this book, He wrote the first sentence and twitter finished the book, Somehow I assume there was a bit of editing involved, but I'll ignore that, this collection of sentences from strangers has turned into a classic Gaiman book.
How How on earth did this happen

The audiobook is under two hours long, If you like Neil Gaiman, you must read this book, A cool experiment to crowd source a plot, but in actual execution it was really just okay, This is why the Twitterverse doesnt write novels, This super short read was very Alice in Wonderlandesque I an even darker way, but had no depth, no transitions, and poorly developed characters, Sam has done something terrible and after the girl in the mirror tells her “we dont love you anymore,” she is whisked away somewhere to pick up the pieces of herself, so to speak.
It satisfied some creepy reading for October for me, but thats about it,/stars

Very interesting concept, I like the idea behind the book, I think its cool to have had some many people work on a book, However, because there was so many different peoples input it stunted the emotionally connect to the characters, The story moved rather fast, It was like big event, big event, big event, I felt no connection to the characters what so ever, Honestly, it was kind of a mess, Which is actually really disappointing because I really liked the concept,

I was actually glad this was a short story as I don't think I would have finished it otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it to others, but upon reading reviews for it, it is very mixed and there are people who LOVE the story,

Audiobook notes: Really enjoyed the reader, I always feel like songs in audio books sound really weird but it wasn't too different from what I usually hear in other books, Een kort verhaal dat Gaiman schreef samen met zijn leger aan Twitter volgers, Het resultaat is ongeveer wat je zou verwachten: een lesje in Improv vreemdheid, Personages roepen regelmatig dingen als "waarom praat iedereen hier in raadsels" Antwoord: omdat er geen plot is
Het voelt als vreemdheid zonder verdere functie, zonder diepere laag.
Er wordt uiteindelijk een boodschap tussen gepropt over vergeving en zelfliefde naar het voelt voorspelbaar en geforceerd,
Het is een leuke promotie stunt maar meer ook niet,/This is an interesting book,

the first line was written by Neil Gaiman and the rest was collectively written by hundreds of people on Twitter and edited into a cohesiveish story by the BBC.
The result is a very Alice in Wonderland type of story where things just sort of happen in rapid succession with a strange logic connecting the events.
As the story progresses, the multiple authors somehow manage to pull off a decently well explored theme and a satisfying conclusion, While the quality is decreased a little by the nature of the experiment, this book is worth reading just for the wild ride it takes you on.
Reminiscent of Wonderland and just as enchanting, I only wish I had been able to read this as it was being written on Twitter, This was a short and sweet mashup between Mirrormask and Alice in Wonderland that was entertaining but not really mindblowing, Some cool ideas that I think could've been better explored in a longer format, Too creepy for me. This was an interesting story with an interesting story of its own, sitelink pastemagazine. com/article

A collaboration between so many authors is bound to be disjointed and inconsistent, but I was pleasantly surprised by how this story developed.
This short story had echoes of Through the Looking Glass, The Wizard of Oz, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, but it somehow became something unique.
It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours and is worth the listen, It is worth listening to this for Katherine Kellgren's performance alone, Kellgren is a wonder narrator! I remembered her from Stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, and her performance brought those stories to life.
I will definitely look for more books performed by her, A can being kicked down the road with a few, and altogether too brief, moments of humor or surprise,

But I guess viewed through the lenses of Twitter, “The Human Dumpster Fire”, producing something readable, . . this might be eligible for a Nobel Peace Prize I didn't know going in that this was more or less a story written in tweets by a group of people, but I could have guessed by reading it.
Things happen haphazardly and too quickly, So sure, maybe a better story than one might expect when written by crowdsourcing, but still not really worth your time, I love love loooove the fact that I can listen to audiobooks while I clean, courtesy of my library and overdrive, So, while I clean I don't listen to music, instead I take myself far far away in the land of books,

I LOVED this eerie little gem, It's a dash of Alice in Wonderland, a dash of Coraline, a bit of Pinnochio and viola, . . You have Hearts, Keys and Puppetry, How cool is it that Gaiman involved the Twitterverse in this Very unique idea, Although I do have to agree that in spots you can find the seam in the writing where it became a touch disjointed, nevertheless it was still a lovely story.


This is about a girl named Samantha who one day, as she is taking a glimpse at herself in the mirror, finds that her reflection has become detached from her and it begins to talk.
"We don't love you anymore, " From there, she is thrust into an alternate world to discover herself again and embarks on a rather life changing journey,

Hearts, Keys and Puppetry has so many oddities in it that remind me so much of Alice's Adventures, Sam is very "Alice" like as well.


The moral of the story really is to forgive yourself and always to love yourself, to find your worth, In that it'sfrom me. Originally posted sitelinkhere!

This is the first audio book I actually finished so this will always have a special place in my heart.
Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry is a the result of a collaborative effort by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse, wherein the famous author gets the ball rolling by tweeting the first sentence, and the rest of the world pitches in.
The result was then turned by BBC into a script for an audiobook,
I admit I was at first doubtful at the resulting quality of the story, Many a time have I tried playing that game where a person writes a sentence, and then another one continues it, and so on, and the resulting plot almost always turned out to be messy.
Because of this, I steeled myself for what the outcome might be, After almost two hours, I resurfaced quite reluctantly into the normal world, Needless to say, I really loved it, Everyone who contributed managed to spin a beautiful tale of adventure and redemption, and I couldnt help but root for Sam all throughout, I was very pleased at the resulting twists and revelations, Imagine all the contributors reading every tweet as they came and figuring out the best course of action to take for Sam and the other characters! It was brilliant, and Im so happy for everyone who contributed to the story.
I also commend Katherine Kellgren for her wonderful job on narrating, I was quite scared of listening to an audio book for fear that it would not be able to retain my attention, but her skill in adapting the best voice for each character and the emotions they felt were not lost to me.
I really enjoyed the whole listening experience,

This is indeed a very good audio book for those who want to try them, You can download the audio books sitelinkhere, Enjoy!.