A review by alenaysu
Observer by Nancy Kress, Robert Lanza

5.0

Wow! This may be my favorite read of 2023! 

Such a great thought-provoking book. I wish I could read more works like this one! 

I didn’t struggle with the physics part in this book since I’m familiar with quantum physics but I can imagine that someone who doesn’t have much knowledge on this topic could feel a bit lost at some points.

However, I do have a critique point.

Why was Caro such an annoying and selfish character?

Every time she opened her mouth, it was only to nag about something. Her constant disbelief in this whole project, even though she got the physics behind it explained over and oveeeer again, was also annoying af. 

The way she had been stubbornly against implanting Watkins but when it was for her own selfish reasons she didn’t accept a no to get implanted herself? 

Also, why did she have the constant need to make everything about herself? Any time a catastrophe happened, her first thought was “omg was it because of meeee?” -No caro, you don’t rule the whole world :) 

And why did she fell in love or get attracted to every male character she encountered? 

I could get on and on about how annoying caro was but to make it short: I very much would have enjoyed this book more without Caro being so negative towards the whole project