The Humans

3.5/5 stars

This book came highly recommended to me by my best friend who let me borrow it (thanks!) and it had great reviews on Goodreads. I hate to say that I feel alone in my disappointment with this book. I had super high expectations for it, though.

I love the concept of aliens and I love a good alien story, whether it be a book or movie. So I was definitely excited to read this story about an alien who takes over a mathematician's body. Andrew has just solved a math problem that will change the world. The unnamed alien is sent to make sure that doesn't happen. The problem is that the alien starts to understand humanity and isn't sure about completing his mission anymore.

I wanted so badly to love this book. I wanted to feel and see the beauty as the alien was seeing and feeling it. For the most part, I didn't. There were aspects that I really enjoyed and thought were lovely, mostly the relationships aspect. Not necessarily romantically, but just the alien understanding and being involved in human relationships. I really enjoyed reading those progressions. But mostly, the descriptions of the alien falling in love with earth and humanity felt pretentious. It was supposed to be full of meaning and the whole “searching for the meaning of life” thing, but it just felt very surface to me and like it was trying way too hard to be deep. The Humans started out hilarious, I really enjoyed the beginning of the book. But by the end, there was just too much meaning of life fake depth for me. I was really disappointed by it, which made me really sad. I'm apparently too jaded.

Would I recommend?
It's honestly 50/50. Read more reviews and take a chance if it sounds like something you'd enjoy. If anything, it was a quick and easy read!