Reviews - Xerox | The StoryGraph

310 reviews for:

Xerox

Fien Veldman

3.41 AVERAGE

juliawriter's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

yeskaylareads's review against another edition

3.5

reflective slow-paced

yikes00's review against another edition

3.0

funny mysterious sad slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

rachloureads's review against another edition

2.0

challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

13rebecca13's review against another edition

2.0

challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to make an effort to read more translated fiction in 2024 because I always find the concepts to be super interesting. This is definitely the case with Hard Copy and I was taken in by the plot.

Hard Copy follows an office worker who develops a relationship of sorts with her printer. She chats to it and becomes quite attached. The story itself is split into four parts; Performance, On Leave, Peer Review and Reintegration.

This book really showed the effects of a monotonous 9-5 job and how your brain can run away with you. When our main character is asked to go on leave for her mental health, you can feel her descent as she becomes uneasy about leaving her printer. It is definitely less "woman makes friends with printer" and more about being a cog in the workplace.

I really enjoyed that fact that there were no names were used, even for our main character, and that people were reduced to their job title. My favourite parts were probably our main characters inner thoughts as she spoke to the printer but also the printer's POV section.

An unusual one!

ilana_pop's review against another edition

2.75

mysterious slow-paced

The first two parts really intrigued me, but from part three on the story was completely lost on me. Was there even a storyline anymore? I don't know. It just felt like endless, pointless prose. No plot, no vibes sadly.