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kurumipanda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Classism
Minor: Dementia
avacadosocks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.25
Graphic: Grief and Terminal illness
Moderate: Child death
arlaubscher's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Slavery, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Grief and Dementia
Minor: Gaslighting, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Self harm, and Emotional abuse
sandwiiche's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, and Terminal illness
amsswim's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Grief, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death
Minor: Cursing and Terminal illness
sarah_pvd's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
update: finished it and still have mixed feelings. i didn‘t connect to it emotionally and the characters fell flat for me. my favourite was Rick, i wish he was featured more. Klara as a narrator was really sweet though. as the book is written from Klara‘s perspective and she is trying to navigate the world and get an understanding of human emotions, i often struggled to follow her description of some scenes and found myself rereading passages quite frequently (those boxes??). that was probably intentional, as you as the reader are meant to try to follow her thought process. nevertheless, it irritated me. pacing was incredibly slow and the ending felt super unsatisfying and rushed. the themes and ideas are pretty interesting but not explored enough. what exactly happened with Sal? what is Paul‘s life like living with the „outcasts“? it just felt really surface level. all in all a rather tiresome reading experience that did not live up to the hype for me, unfortunately.
Moderate: Child death and Terminal illness
ninahuynh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
I would also say that this book opens up discussion for artificial intelligent/artificial friends' self.
Graphic: Child death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, and Terminal illness
kelsea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness
mirandyli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Death, and Child death
martasshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I think I liked it overall but found it boring and weird for the first two thirds of the book.
Almost at the end of the book I looked up some reviews and realized this was just the author's style. Some descriptions given by our narrator - Klara - had felt weird for me and I even wondered if my english, not being my first language, was failing me... No, I was just reading a robot's kind of mind.
If one enjoys slow paced books this will be a great choice. And the themes are pretty universal.
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Grief and Child death