This one had a lot of potential and really just didn't deliver. Initially I was loving the book, I loved the unique voice it had - clearly the girl, or "alien" as referred to in the book, is on the spectrum and one of her main struggles is language and speaking. I also thought the footnotes and "further reading" after each chapter were quirky and cute and very Where'd-You-Go-Bernadette-esque. And that's about where my likes stopped. I would have loved to have gotten more of an insight into our main character and her home life/growing up, but the book completely turned into an over analytical piece on this manuscript that we really never get an answer about. Things just kind of fell off. It was, however, a super quick read and I would definitely try something else from this author again.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!