Book: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Author: Hank Green
Pages: 352
This is my 162nd read for the year
What Amazon Says:
The Carls just appeared. Roaming through NYC at 3 am, 23 year old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a 10 foot tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor - April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her sefety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.
This was a pretty decent book. I liked all the characters, and was pulled in to the story right from the beginning. It is a fascinating story, but there were a few things that rubbed me the wrong way which dropped it a star for me. Overall - great character development and interesting story. What bothered me was these are young people, and the thing with the Carl's got very big very fast and yet the strangeness of them got the government's attention very late. That didn't make sense - that the government wouldn't at all try to control something that just appeared? These days a weather balloon gets shot out of he air and makes national news. Otherwise - a solid read, and I plan on reading the sequel.
Stars: 4
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