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Hum

Helen Phillips

3.61 AVERAGE

dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional slow-paced
challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I loved this book. I loved its  challenging mirror of our humanity and all of our endeavors. To what ends, and by these means. The humanity encased in organic matter and inorganic materials. This book will sit with me for a long time.

hillcat's review

4.5
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
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thaisjs's review

4.0
dark reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fazia tempo que eu não lia um livro tão bem escrito!

A autora constroi o mundo da narrativa de forma objetiva, sucinta e competente, sem precisar de 600+ páginas (o que parece ser a norma atualmente). Além de ser muito bem pesquisado, com traços da nossa realidade inseridos estrategicamente pra aproximar a narrativa da leitora, o livro é muito bem ambientado. Incômodo e tensão são sensações que acompanham a leitura, e sentimos o mesmo que a personagem.

Algumas características não fizeram sentido pra mim, como a idolatria insalubre da mãe por seus filhos mimados, malcriados e nojentos. Mas talvez a escolha seja apenas uma tentativa de estabelecer os pais como pessoas falhas.

Então, resumindo, o livro é assustador, porque mostra o futuro para o qual a humanidade já está se direcionando. É especulativo, mas também é literário.

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poodlemama99's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Bizarre
dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was weird. And kind of terrifying.

alannamaureen's review

3.5
dark reflective tense medium-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
challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s an episode of black mirror. May loses her job and is forced to do an experimental procedure on her face, making it slightly different. Using the money she made, she takes her family to the botanical garden- the only “natural area” left in the city where they can camp and enjoy trees, grass and waterfalls. May and her husband fall asleep and lose their kids at a waterfall for over an hour but are able to get the kids back with the help of a robot assistant- the robots are the “Hum”s. Since everything is recorded, mays mistake of losing her kids backfires and a Hum comes to their home with suspicious motives to try and resolve the investigation into May due to her “negligence”

suzikw's review

4.75
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes