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adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
The First State of Being is my first EEK, but unfortunately it didn’t really hit the mark for me. This may have been in part to the annoying automated voice narration. That being said, I listened to the whole book and nothing jumped out at me as being super impactful. The characters were nice, especially Michael who is super lovable. And I thought the 1990 setting was fun- I was a late 90s baby, but adults who grew up in the 90s will especially like that aspect. However kids today will not be able to relate to that. Also, I was a little confused by the audio transcript future scenes, and I think that young readers will be thrown by these too. These scenes were especially hard to listen to on audio.
The death of [spoiler] was sad, and Ridge’s philosophy of living “in the first state of being” was interesting, but I don’t feel that the author developed these plot points enough to really leave the reader with something to think about.
I will be trying other EEK books because I do like her writing style and she has some interesting looking stories out there
The First State of Being is my first EEK, but unfortunately it didn’t really hit the mark for me. This may have been in part to the annoying automated voice narration. That being said, I listened to the whole book and nothing jumped out at me as being super impactful. The characters were nice, especially Michael who is super lovable. And I thought the 1990 setting was fun- I was a late 90s baby, but adults who grew up in the 90s will especially like that aspect. However kids today will not be able to relate to that. Also, I was a little confused by the audio transcript future scenes, and I think that young readers will be thrown by these too. These scenes were especially hard to listen to on audio.
The death of [spoiler] was sad, and Ridge’s philosophy of living “in the first state of being” was interesting, but I don’t feel that the author developed these plot points enough to really leave the reader with something to think about.
I will be trying other EEK books because I do like her writing style and she has some interesting looking stories out there
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death
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