Deanna

I enjoyed this book overall, but since it is really a series of vignettes I didn’t feel like there was anything really compelling to drive me through reading. I overall really enjoyed most of the stories and the callbacks to earlier characters in later chapters. The final two chapters were the least compelling for me

DNF after 2.5 stories. The stories are short, simple, and cute and there is some nice (very obvious) messaging happening, but it quickly got repetitive and predictable. The writing felt very stilted and I’m not sure if that is how the original is written or a commentary on the translation work, which in general was filled with typos.

Gave up after 3.5 stories. Really enjoyed “Story of your Life” and I can appreciate the craftsmanship that went into the stories I did finish, but it was more hard sci-fi and lacked enough emotion to make me want to finish the collection.

It had its moments, but the gimmick of the changing husbands got old fast and I found the entire premise (and ending) frustrating.