Book: The Humans
Author: Matt Haig
Pages: 320
This is my 89th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry home to his own utopian planet, where everyone is omniscient and immort. He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, and is equally baffed by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to tis strange species than he had thought. Disguised as Martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music, and atast for peanut butter. Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin's family. He begins to see hope and beauty in the humans' imperfection, and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.
This was a decent book. It started out strong, and I was interested to see where it was going. By the middle it did start to sag a bit - and got a bit monotonous. Wrapped up well, but I didn't like it as well as The Midnight Library.
Stars: 3.5
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