Remarkably Bright Creatures

I thought the premise was intriguing, and the passages involving Marcellus were quite interesting and very well done, and Tova's were well done also, but the portions dealing with the other characters were just so much unnecessary fluff, diluting the storyline. I found myself skipping whole sections, which is never a good sign. Perhaps the threads would have all come together later in the book, enriching the tale as they did so, but I couldn't bring myself to stick with them enough to see it through. So, unfortunately, this will end up as a “DNF” for me.