Ryan

I'd never heard of this book until recently, but I was hooked by the weird combination of murdering and mindfulness.

It's a pretty humorous book, and I surprisingly learned a thing or two about mindfulness along the way.

I found it just a touch hard to follow toward the end, but honestly that could be my fault more than the author's since I had a hard time keeping up with the different characters by then.

All in all a unique plot and not like something I've read before. I'd definitely recommend anyone looking for something quirky to give it a go!

Pretty good book. I was laughing at some funny things at the very beginning, but as time went on I found myself starting to get a touch bored by the book here and there. It was overall a fascinating one to read though and I still enjoyed it quite a bit, so I still would recommend it.

This book had so much potential, but just could not live up to the interesting plot. While I get that worldbuilding needs to be done, I felt the book got too sidetracked in the first half with it. By the time we started getting into the meat of it into the final three-quarters, I just wanted it to be over.

The dialogue is OK, and I found the author uses many of the same turns of phrase for different characters, resulting in no one character sounding any different.

Strewn about are also some small grammatical errors. Things like words being repeated twice, words that are missing, and quotes that aren't closed off appropriately.

The plot itself was interesting and there were some pieces I did enjoy, but I just think this book needed some more TLC from either the author or a closer eye from the editor. It has so much potential, but it's just not there.

Wasn't my favorite book. Felt a little to philosophical for me and I felt like the points being made were already ones I'd discovered myself and hadn't added much new to the discourse.

There's some funny dialogue and there is some imaginative scenery setting, and even the plot itself is entertaining enough, but the philosophy of it all really weighs it down for me.

A charming little story about smart appliances in a smart home watching over the senior man and woman living inside it. As appliances, they don't quite understand concepts like "beauty" or metaphors, but they are trying and slowly do learn about them over the course of the book.

Edie, the wife, becomes ill, and life for everyone becomes upended - even for the appliances - as they navigate through this challenge.

Some authors have a way of building tension slowly throughout the entirety of a book, and Glenn Dixon did this wonderfully in this one. The whole time I was reading I was both excited and apprehensive as to what would happen next, becoming attached to both the human characters and appliances in the process.

This book has some simple but beautiful prose, some nice musical imagery as there is some piano playing involved, and an interesting idea at the heart of it all. The ending was beautiful and really tied it all together too, bringing me to tears in the process (I have been picking tearjerkers as of late, apparently).

I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish and highly highly recommend.

Some authors have a way of building tension slowly throughout the entirety of a book, and Glenn Dixon did this wonderfully in this one. The whole time I was reading I was both excited and apprehensive as to what happened next, becoming attached to both the human characters and appliances in the process.

This book has some simple but beautiful prose, some nice musical imagery, and an interesting idea at the heart of it all. The ending was beautiful and really tied it all together too, bringing me to tears in the process.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish and highly highly recommend.

I was originally going to give this book a 2.5 stars or maybe a 3, but it really picked up in the last quarter of the book.

The books suffers from a bit of bloat, making some of the humor get tiresome. For the good first half I couldn't help thinking what was the point of it all... But it was interesting enough that I wanted to see it through, so here we are.

I wish the author delved more into Ryan's thoughts and really explored them more as things feel a bit surface level and basic at times. There was also a lot of ground covered in the book with two main factions, I ended up feeling lost for a bit of the book.

But at the end it somehow ties it all up decently enough that I'd be willing to give the next book a chance.

So is it worth reading? Maybe, maybe not. If you really dislike the humor, I'd say no, but if it's at least tolerable, then maybe. There are some legitimately funny bits, but at other points the jokes don't land the best.

Overall not a half bad book, just has a reaaaaally slow buildup.