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REVIEWING TODAY: THE TRANSLUCENT BOY AND THE GIRL WHO SAW HIM BY TOM HOFFMAN

A tantalizing talent that Tom Hoffman has exhibited in all his prior books, but which comes to exquisite culmination in his latest creation, The Translucent Boy and the Girl Who Saw Him, is the ability to ignite and inflame a reader’s most deeply seated and joyful curiosity. Within the first few chapters of this brilliantly engaging book, one is enraptured by a strange and provocative mystery that makes the reader wriggle with rapt anticipation: Who are these likable but apparently ruthless scientists who would experiment on a pregnant woman? How can the consequence be a translucent, not transparent (let’s be clear about that) boy child? Why is this boy being monitored and prophetically triggered by seemingly random encounters with decidedly unusual people? And most of all, who is this sweet young girl, apparently telepathic, who actually sees the boy, not through him, and wants to be his only friend?

So, maybe think of The Translucent Boy and the Girl Who Saw Him as your personal ticket to amazement and adventure, for Tom Hoffman will indeed amaze you as surely as P.T. Barnum when you follow Odo and Sephie (the Boy and the Girl) on an adventure worthy of a billion worlds, literally, as they foray first to Plindor, where yellow octopi are the norm. Okay, this is not a book made for easy distillation or concise description. Filled with magic, science, metaphysical realities (a Hoffman hallmark, to be sure) and lots of Hoffmanian romantic and self-deprecating humor, you may be certain to encounter this: amazement aplenty, and entertainment served up large. Sit back and prepare to be delighted. Oh yeah, the kids should like it too.

Joel R. Dennstedt – Top Reviewer for Readers’ Favorite

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