Thursday

I thought this was a really interesting take on “The Man Who Was Thursday”, posing a lot of interesting questions on the nature of the self and of reality but never really providing any answers, leaving each character (and the reader) to puzzle it out for themselves. It was a bit disappointing though that race is never really mentioned at all, despite one of the POV characters being a Black woman. Like, more thought is given to the unique experiences of an AI than to her experiences as a Black woman in New York.

If anyone who follows me is reading this, I KNOW Lucian's voice is utterly insufferable, it's intentional and eventually the POV will switch to another character who is not terrible.