Come, Thou Tortoise

An incredibly lovely book. So sincere—usually books with quirky characters and style like this come off as contrived but this reads so real. It truly is a mystery as well (but more in the sense of life being a great mystery, than some sort of who-done-it), and manages to suspend the reader in that state of thinking they know what is happening but never being quite sure, without feeling as though it is cheating the reader by simply hiding the details. As the wonderful Oddly Flowers says ‘But there is no aha moment. I don't jump out of my seat and say, I've got it, by Jove, I've figured it out. Because you cannot figure out what you already know but don't know you know.'