avlieber 's review for:

The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold

2.0

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Okay so, was this supposed to be deep? And meaningful? And let me guess... powerful, right? Because it wasn’t.

First off, it feels like I just read a John Green novel, which mind you, it is not a bad thing, I think, had I chosen to read a John Green novel. Which I didn’t.
Second, people really need to stop with this pseudo-intellectualism; no really, I mean it, stop. One more look-at-me-me-I-am-so0o0o0-deep 16-year-old teen singing the praises of Thoreau and I’ll flip... yo.
Which leads me to my third and final point, and I was not a North American teenager, so what do I know, but who even talks like that? No one, bruh, that’s who!

Other than that, there were some decent subplots scattered here and there, and one sentence that really resonated with me: “I always want to meet new people until I’ve met them”. But you know what this is? This is

Spoiler

that story that I, and you, and all of us wrote in the 8th grade that went so wild and out of touch with reality that the only conceivable way of finishing it was with the miraculous “and then they woke up” trope. At least we didn’t publish ours.