Great for book club but brace for a hangover

Went through this very quickly! Couldn't start anything else for a while after as the mysterious side of this story, the unanswered questions had me going over and over the details for a week with what I've heard people call a 'book hangover'. It came highly recommended and I can see why.
Trying to imagine this life, how you would act and react in the same setting that no human has found themselves in before...it made for a great choice for our book club!

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Unsettling and haunting

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was very different from what I normally read but was very engaging, despite the mundane nature of the narrators life.

The narration was excellent and really added to the story

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Thoroughly enjoyable

Deeply sad, nostalgic, hopeful and hopeless. A wonderful story told by an admirable protagonist. Left feeling full and empty all at once.

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Strangely powerful

This book had an unsatisfactory ending (I was longing for an epilogue to answer all the questions) but despite this, it was very impactful. The sense of hopeless loneliness in the last quarter of the book was so palpable that I almost felt panicked by it. The narration was superb.

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Wow

I’m so glad I read this! It’s so thought provoking and moving. A must read.

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Utterly gripping and extraordinary

A captivating wonderful story on what it means to be human. Beautifully written and read. Has me gripped from start to finish

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fresh,new.

A story I will remember and could not easily confuse with another. very good. left wanting more.

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Amazingly engaging but skip the introduction

I began listening to the introduction, and as soon as I got a hint it was giving a little too much away, I skipped it and went straight into Chapter 1. I'm so glad I did! This book is amazing, compelling, and had me totally engaged.

I went back at the end to listen to the introduction again and was so glad i hadn't listened to it first because it gave spoilers or literally the whole book.

This has such an interesting, unique story and it brilliantly written.

The introduction does say it's been enjoyed by a relatively small audience, so I'm not sure why they'd give an introduction with play-by-plays of the plot, like you'd see in universally-known classics. This book is full of gripping tiny reveals and best enjoyed with as little prior knowledge as possible.

I loved the narrator. She was slightly slow for my taste, but I listened at 1.2x speed and it was totally perfect.

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Skip the intro - rest of the story is gold

The story is so captivating, I couldn’t stop listening. Couldn’t stop thinking about it once it finished, so many questions. Would definitely recommend, wish i could hear it for the first time again. Skip the intro it nearly put me off, felt like I was being told what to think of the book. So glad I persevered.

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alien circumstances made quiet relatable

This is told is such a new way. The narrators take on a terrible and unimaginable situation is so clearly put across. If you ever wondered what we'd be like without culture or men...read this.

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