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aufferings 's review for:
The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
maybe it’s because when you reach me is one of my favorite books of all time, or maybe it’s because i’m not in the target age range, but i was expecting much more from this book than what i got. a lot of things were tried, and i thought some things were quite interesting (like the conversation about the ethics of time travel in regards to the movement of viruses and illness — really thought-provoking, perhaps a topic for another book!), but overall this was…okay. i think maybe too many things were trying to be done here, but none of them were fully fleshed out. and the ridge name origin was kind of silly to me… but also ik thats probably the point! again im not the main audience. but still.
i was also kind of confused because i feel like some of the stuff here was a bit convoluted for kids to understand. some of the documents and files were written convolutedly, which made them feel like real files lol but also felt kind of starkly different from michael’s simpler, youthful pov. the back and forth was intriguing at times but often disrupted my focus while reading. i feel like also ridge didnt really do much while he was there and then he left and michael i guess had some development but eh and gibby was also very flat. also everyone telling michael not to worry about y2k annoyed me like he’s 12 and this sounds scary as hell of course he’s worried!! can someone talk to him calmly about it!! i guess ridge kind of did. also i just feel like some of the jokes would not have made sense to kids this is targeted to, like the netflix thing?? but i’m definitely not the target audience, so hm? anyway i’ll stop now but i wish i had enjoyed it more :/ i hope the kids enjoy it if thats the case then thats good
i was also kind of confused because i feel like some of the stuff here was a bit convoluted for kids to understand. some of the documents and files were written convolutedly, which made them feel like real files lol but also felt kind of starkly different from michael’s simpler, youthful pov. the back and forth was intriguing at times but often disrupted my focus while reading. i feel like also ridge didnt really do much while he was there and then he left and michael i guess had some development but eh and gibby was also very flat. also everyone telling michael not to worry about y2k annoyed me like he’s 12 and this sounds scary as hell of course he’s worried!! can someone talk to him calmly about it!! i guess ridge kind of did. also i just feel like some of the jokes would not have made sense to kids this is targeted to, like the netflix thing?? but i’m definitely not the target audience, so hm? anyway i’ll stop now but i wish i had enjoyed it more :/ i hope the kids enjoy it if thats the case then thats good