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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
Make sure you're in a emotionally stable place before and while you read this. It's a sad but funny book, and it messed with my emotions while I read it. I had to put it down several times. Don't get me wrong, I was really enjoying the book, but then the last chapter "Black Hole" just got me down. iykyk. I just wasn't ready, I guess?
funny
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
If possible, I think I might be an alien who they forgot to give a fax machine to. I adored this book. Adina is a wonderfully endearing, oddly comedic, and relatable alien. Her story was all at once heartwarming, heartbreaking, fun and poignant, and I loved every weird little second of it. For some reason, it did take me a few pages to start to flow with the writing style. But once I did, I was hooked. More please.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Loved it, hated that it’s not scifi
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Ah, the unreliable narrator: an expected trope in literary fiction but what about the unreliable blurb? ‘Meet Adina: a woman who has never felt at home on Earth’: so far, so clear. ‘As a child, she recognises she is different, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet’: is she an alien? ‘Then a fax machine arrives at home. Her mission is clear: she must report on the oddities of humankind’: via fax? To a distant star system?
There is perhaps a world where this is science fiction, but I read this as a forerunner toe Life Hacks For A Little Alien, about neurodivergent people and their reactions and responses to the world in all its exasperating everyday weirdness. Adina is a delightful character but an alien? I think not. Loved the book, hated that it wasn’t scifi.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Great prose. Very interesting and well executed premise. Fantastic and moving ending.