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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Evelyn, a super smart and driven scientist specializing in cloning, is struggling with the knowledge that her ex-husband was cheating on her with a clone he secretly made of Evelyn (after having stolen her research). Even more of a headache is when she is forced to team up with her clone, Martine, when the clone murders their husband.
A bit slow with a focus on the science (and sometimes the monotony of scientific research). There were a couple awesome twists I didn’t see coming. And also sinister - both in how Evelyn is so detached from the sentient creatures she grows to the horrors she enacts upon them in the name of science. Interesting take on what it means to be sentient and what personhood is from the perspective of a character who is, at best, amoral.
A bit slow with a focus on the science (and sometimes the monotony of scientific research). There were a couple awesome twists I didn’t see coming. And also sinister - both in how Evelyn is so detached from the sentient creatures she grows to the horrors she enacts upon them in the name of science. Interesting take on what it means to be sentient and what personhood is from the perspective of a character who is, at best, amoral.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
dark
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Main character is a huge narcissist and like, are we supposed to feel bad for her struggle? No idea.
I am once again retiring from house wife books.
I am once again retiring from house wife books.
dark
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was not the worst book I have ever read but I did not enjoy it overly much. It has a lot of the same sorts of problems that Light From Uncommon Stars had: The way the protagonist doesn't act like a real person, the way the writing beats basic ideas to death, even ones that don't make much sense, the way EVERY other human in the book is out to get the protagonist just to underline the idea that the protagonist was and is abused, at the expense of resembling the real world.
This was not a compelling main character to me. She starts out cartoonishly evil, then we're given a couple background reasons for why she is that way, and then the book starts to flirt with the idea of an arc, and I guess I'm actually kind of glad it didn't happen because nothing would have been enough. Unfortunately at the end of the book we're in this weird sort of middle ground where the main character is too awful to take seriously, but too serious to be entertaining.
I don't know what this book wants me to take from it. Hurt people hurt people? Come on. I feel the same way about this portrayal of abuse and survival as I did in Uncommon Stars. If you're going to write about abuse and survivors of abuse, do it justice, don't just slap down caricatures. It's annoying and sort of insulting.
The premise is interesting. I still sort of wish Evelyn had ended up being a clone. The prose reads super fast and would have been even faster with all the redundant parts removed. There were some creative uses of imagery. I didn't like it but I didn't hate it. I probably will not read other books by this author. Wonder what Mona Awad is up to.
This was not a compelling main character to me. She starts out cartoonishly evil, then we're given a couple background reasons for why she is that way, and then the book starts to flirt with the idea of an arc, and I guess I'm actually kind of glad it didn't happen because nothing would have been enough. Unfortunately at the end of the book we're in this weird sort of middle ground where the main character is too awful to take seriously, but too serious to be entertaining.
I don't know what this book wants me to take from it. Hurt people hurt people? Come on. I feel the same way about this portrayal of abuse and survival as I did in Uncommon Stars. If you're going to write about abuse and survivors of abuse, do it justice, don't just slap down caricatures. It's annoying and sort of insulting.
The premise is interesting. I still sort of wish Evelyn had ended up being a clone. The prose reads super fast and would have been even faster with all the redundant parts removed. There were some creative uses of imagery. I didn't like it but I didn't hate it. I probably will not read other books by this author. Wonder what Mona Awad is up to.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated