kmlandua92 's review for:

The Humans by Matt Haig

3.0

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I thought this book was interesting. There are some stirringly beautiful passages, however, I think Matt Haig sometimes sacrifices plot and character development in favor of lengthy ruminations on life and what it means to be human. This book could easily be half as long, and you would still get the entirety of the storyline. It felt at times as if Haig had written some good essays on the human experience and decided to tape them together using this alien narrator and call it a novel. That said, I still enjoyed the book, and found myself laughing out loud at many parts, while also being moved by the prose and introspection at points. The last third is especially wonderful. I would recommend this book to my more fervent of reader friends, but not anyone who is easily bored, nor would I read it again.