Remarkably Bright Creatures

4/29/2024

Shelby Van Pelt’s characters in Remarkably Bright Creatures come alive in remarkably bright ways. They are deeply flawed and yet somehow completely lovable. It is brilliant how she uses Marcellus, the octopus, to drive the story forward, creating a real page turner. Despite some of the plot points relying a bit too heavily on coincidence, I fell in love with her writing, her story telling, and especially Marcellus. Hard to imagine this much talent in a debut novel—I can’t wait for her next one. She’s definitely one to watch!

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little brain, and you Think Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
Winnie-the-Pooh