Tuesday, April 23, 2024

On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane

 

This seemed as though it was going to be an interesting novel, looking kinda askance at what life might be like if aliens showed up, then left without doing anything. What it turned out to be was 400 pages of characters slightly more annoying than nails on a chalkboard, random happenings with only the vaguest internal connections, and at the end a message about friendship and family and love.

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