Remarkably Bright Creatures

I read this book after seeing the movie. I'm not sure if that was a mistake... The book was very well written, and I became quite invested in the characters. However, the major "reveal" in the story came quite early and was anti-climactic. The book would have been served better to push the reveal out a bit - which is exactly what the movie did. A rare circumstance in which the movie was a bit better!

If you want a sense of the depth of this book, it's basically a re-imagined for adults version of Adam Sandler's "Leo" kids movie. Not sure which actually came first, but either way, neither is particularly deep and both involve lots of Deus ex Machina moments.

I got some chuckles out if it along the way, but the characters don't face any complex challenges or grow in any interesting ways other than to magically shed their flaws.

The solid writing makes it a nice casual read when there's nothing else to do?

Up-lit with an octopus. I liked the chapters from Marcellus and the interactions between him and Tova, but the rest of the story just wasn't my thing. Very sentimental, but I can see why others like it so much.