Sixteen-year-old Pia has always lived in a mysterious facility where mechanical strings control her existence. She plays apprentice to her father, Gio, in performing nanotech designs for the Company, and she soon suspects there are diabolical human forces behind the manufactured reality of her world.
Though her childhood memories and the origins of the strings remain strangely elusive, she begins to find solace with the introduction of two unlikely friends: daring, irrational Sofia, and calm, tender Marco.
As the truths of the past and present unravel together, Pia must find a way to free herself from her strings and escape the facility before facing the wrath of the unstable head of security, Mr. Davis. But to gain her freedom, she must navigate the dangers posed by Davis and by her suspicious new friends to find the real identity of the puppeteer.
If Pia can succeed in revealing the secrets of the Company, she may very well find the independence she so desperately seeks. But in her controlled world nothing is as it seems, and the closer she gets to the truth, the graver the consequences. @goodreads
MY REVIEW:
4 STARS
This was me until I got to the end game! I had to know!
***MILD SPOILERS***
Pia and her father Gio are inside of a compound, prisoners, on strings and they have to work in the workshop all of the time.
No one will tell Pia what is going on and she can't do anything she wants or her strings will attack her! Who is pulling those strings!!!
She has a little Robot friend that I just loved. Pia calls him Fig because he's really tiny and he flies around, her father put a secret mechanism in where they can hear and talk to each other without anyone else knowing. ↓ Okay, he's supposed to be tiny, but still
One day out of the blue, Pia gets to go to a garden room with a girl named Sofia and they become friends. It's really nice in the garden room, the flowers and birds, ducks. But why is Pia all of the sudden able to have a friend.
Before that she becomes a friend with a boy named Marco. He seems to be some kind of person in charge, but not everything is as it seems!
They have guards that keep things under control, not that they need them with the strings, but still. There is a real evil one named Mr. Davies. He hates Pia and her father, but why, what did they do to him?
Through out the book, Pia is slowly remembering things from her past until finally we get to the end game. We find out what is really going on, what really happened and let me tell you, it's a mind blowing moment! I was thinking there are some real freaks up in this place and you will too if you read the book! It's sad in a way though when you find out some of the reasons.
I liked going into this world of a Pinocchio retelling! It was bizarre and I like bizarre :-)
GOODREADS REVIEW:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1556353299
AMAZON LINK TO THE BOOK:
http://www.amazon.com/Strings-David-Estes/dp/1523246006/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1456278503&sr=8-1
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