A review by cattytrona
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

2.0

i found this pretty whatever. whistle stop tour of why: boring prose, flat world, flat characters, not enough aliens, not enough eureka, long but for what, ‘All his life he'd known, starting from the first day his parents had shown him a picture of one in a book’ about turkeys, unpleasant energies, rushed, ambiguities seemed like gaps. made me think of the end of the affair and this one james tiptree jr short story, which respectively do faith/relationship crises and human/alien social clash, and do them better, deeper, darker.