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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I started this book by one of my favorite authors (I’m going to call her my beloved Suzy from here on) nearly a month ago. But, early on I was just so so confused because the cat was in three different places at once. It shouldn’t have distracted me like it did, but it really, REALLY did. I didn’t want to give up on my beloved Suzy’s work, but I did set it aside. Truth be told, I set it aside twice. During one of those breaks I read my beloved Suzy’s own review on another tracking site and the post she links in her review about the cat. Now feeling less dumb (and, yes, spoiling the premise for myself prematurely), I LOVE my beloved Suzy’s book. Highly recommend.
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
reflective
tense
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
Loved it! Finished at 12:04 AM, January 1, 2025. Krause’s message of life going on, even as we are racing to the red lights, is what I needed to ring in this scary new year. Set in both Canada and Berlin, scientists have just announced that a cosmic blast is set to end life on Earth in two months. Facing terminal illness, early onset dementia, relationship beginnings and endings, false prophets, true prophets, loneliness, nostalgia, and deja vu, this extended family made their way into my heart. And the curmudgeonly cat… He clued us in all along!
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really lovely story that I started at a time when it felt slow and then when I finished, I cried. I really enjoyed it.
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The characters kept getting mixed up in my head. I don’t know if this is because the author did a poor job of introducing them or didn’t make them unique enough. Or did I miss this in the begging and wasn’t paying enough attention? Definitely an odd book about an odd family.
“They hadn’t known how lovely it had been to be bored, inconvenienced, irritated, sleep deprived. How lovely it had been to be alive and able to ignore death.”
“Kids don’t realize how hard it is to be the adult, how courage doesn’t just show up, how life is actually more frightening when you’re older because the stakes get higher and higher. You love more and more people and also understand more fully how fragile and temporary they are.”
“They hadn’t known how lovely it had been to be bored, inconvenienced, irritated, sleep deprived. How lovely it had been to be alive and able to ignore death.”
“Kids don’t realize how hard it is to be the adult, how courage doesn’t just show up, how life is actually more frightening when you’re older because the stakes get higher and higher. You love more and more people and also understand more fully how fragile and temporary they are.”
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced