Remarkably Bright Creatures

A weak three. Tova is great, Ethan is okay, but Marcellus is the star and there's not enough of him.

Minor characters: Jeanne great, Terry pretty good, Elizabeth good, Simon Brinks good, the Knit Wits well written, but Avery was not believable.

Cameron was SO annoying, he lacked charm and I did not feel sympathy for him. The plot also seemed fairly obvious. I picked up this book for the octopus and Tova and got manchild finds the grandmother he doesn't know he has and becomes less of an ass hat because he learns (I guess) to keep a job and to be cleaner?

I understand that there could only be so much of Marcellus but it still feels like a bait and switch. It's a gorgeous cover, but I also saw that there's a version of the book with the dala (or Dalecarlian) horse on the cover and oof that would have thrown me as the horses are only mentioned about twice. Then it got weird when Marcellus says that these communications (or something like that) tire him out and that weakened it for me. I had assumed that they were his thoughts. Also it says that Terry's daughter named Marcellus when she was four, what 4 year old knows the name Marcellus, was she into Roman history or something?