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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
medium-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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
I really thought I would love it and I wanted to love it so much… I just am not invested in the story, I don’t care about the characters so after 50% I decided to move on
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Super interesting … kind of magical realism in a vaguely sci-fi premise. Or is it? It’s either about an extraterrestrial soul born into a baby during a difficult birth or maybe it’s about an autistic person who finds themselves to be outside of the human experience. She believes she is on Earth to study humans and report back to her home world. Either way, as she grows up, Adina reports on the strangeness and the beauty and the pain of being human to her people via a fax machine. Her reports get published and sell wildly, and the meta commentary is that the people that read her book are also divided into those who believe she is an alien and those who believe she has autism or a mental illness. It’s very engaging and i really enjoyed it! #5stars #2025Reads #Beautyland
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Death, Terminal illness, Grief
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a coming of age story of a girl who is supposed to be an alien. The coming of age aspect was good but it kind of lost me with the alien thing. Was she really an alien, though? Or was she just a girl who felt like an outsider?
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-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
- Not as sci-fi as I was hoping
- I really loved Adina's observations, lots of good quotes and takeaways
- The fact that she was (or wasn't) an alien was fun to think about but didn't move the plot much
- Lots of parallels with the little prince
- I really loved Adina's observations, lots of good quotes and takeaways
- The fact that she was (or wasn't) an alien was fun to think about but didn't move the plot much
- Lots of parallels with the little prince