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A review by meemawreads
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
adventurous
challenging
informative
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Men generally aren't socialized to imagine their existence outside their own POV or predict the emotions and actions of people who aren't like them just to survive, so I usually don't like their writing as much 🙆🏼♀️
That's why a book by a male author that doesn't annoy the doodoo out of me deserves extra praise! Thank you, Ray, for writing a book I enjoyed! We follow a marine biologist, Ha Nguyen, and other interesting side characters as a future world researches the existence of superintelligent octopi and their ability to possibly communicate with humans. It touches on lots of philosophy without dwelling too long: what makes a human human? What would communication in other species look like? Are humans capable of interacting with another sapiens without destroying them? At times it got a bit in the weeds on the science and I was bored, that's why I say my enjoyment of listening to it was probably three taters, but the way it made me think even after the book was done bumped it to four 🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
That's why a book by a male author that doesn't annoy the doodoo out of me deserves extra praise! Thank you, Ray, for writing a book I enjoyed! We follow a marine biologist, Ha Nguyen, and other interesting side characters as a future world researches the existence of superintelligent octopi and their ability to possibly communicate with humans. It touches on lots of philosophy without dwelling too long: what makes a human human? What would communication in other species look like? Are humans capable of interacting with another sapiens without destroying them? At times it got a bit in the weeds on the science and I was bored, that's why I say my enjoyment of listening to it was probably three taters, but the way it made me think even after the book was done bumped it to four 🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Death