A review by tatyanavogt
S. by Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams

4.0

I have to admit that most of my stars for this book is because of the experience! I highly recommend it because its a fun one. Basically we have this book that two people are communicating with each other through the margins and random pictures, letters, postcards etc that they've slipped through the pages. Because of this there ends up being several stories that you're following in such a unique and fun way.

You've got the story of the book, the story behind the author of the book, and the story of the two people who are using the book to communicate.

NOW, I do have to admit that the actual plots of everything are a little meh. IF it wasn't for the really cool mixed media format I would have probably rated this lower. The book was fine, it had some pretty cool elements and interesting things happening but I didn't love it as much as I would like. And then the margin story (which felt like the real story to me) was missing a lot. I just wanted more from the theories and them.

Regardless I still recommend it because it was so much fun to read.

Also, I technically first started reading this back in November 2022 and read about half of it then and finished the other half in December 2023