Shell

Hilarious.

Another wonderful, feel-good novel from Steve Kluger. Love his characters and what he does with them!

I LOVED THIS BOOK. I almost want to turn around and read it again. Immediately.

(Very mildly spoilery, but I marked it just in case.)This alternate ending for [b:Feed 7094569 Feed Mira Grant http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1335958027s/7094569.jpg 7351419] made me as sad as the “true” ending! Worse, in a way, because there's no recovery from this one...

I really wanted to like this book. The last maybe 20% of it pulled it up from a 1-star to a 2-star rating for me, because it got more interesting when they finally moved past all the long drawn out back stories and interacted with people (outside of the Binat girls' constant infighting). It just felt like so much backstory and world-building, but very little actual character interactions and meaningful character development. The development that occurred was mostly just sprung on us, vs. something the characters worked through. Sigh. Really fun idea for a P&P adaptation, but mostly it felt like a slog.