Reviews and Comments

I was wondering if it would be worth it to read the book if it was marked as a YA novel, after having read the manga. Overall, the story beats are pretty similar and I can visualize the manga as I read it. Some scenes are slightly moved around, and we get more internal dialogue as opposed to the focus on show not tell that the manga has from it's beautiful art. Honestly, do not regret it, just remembering how delightfully enchanting this story is. It's truly underrated as an environmental narrative.

recommended by a friend. she said it's gotten a lot of positive attention.

partner picked this up on audible. he's a fan of SCP. another friend is going to read it because she saw it on instagram. lol.

Kind of horny but the overall world building of China in the near future, from the barriers that autistic or queer men face in the marriage market, to the attempts to maintain heteropatriarchy amid a sex disparity in populations, I'm quite curious how this will play out.

let's be for real i don't want to read a love story

Pretty cool! I liked Mikayla's character. AI sucks, but i guess that's not the full story of what happened with her. Still not ideal to have an autistic savant character, but having a neurodivergent and fat Black woman represented, with excellent narration in the audiobook, made it my favorite of the perspectives to follow along with. it's a bit short, but i think that's okay. I like the incorporation of indigenous culture and sci-fi.