Reviews

Thursday by Jake Kerr, G.K. Chesterton

bryce_is_a_librarian's review

1.0

Take a Poochiefied version of The Man Who Was Thursday (This is a Chesterton that gets Bizzay!) that ignores all that boring spiritual stuff.

Just imagine how bad you think this book is going to be.

Then make it oh so much worse.

annaswan's review against another edition

2.0

Utterly unsatisfactory. I didn't even care enough to give it a 1-star rating. At least it was short.

sarah984's review

3.0

I thought this was a really interesting take on "The Man Who Was Thursday", posing a lot of interesting questions on the nature of the self and of reality but never really providing any answers, leaving each character (and the reader) to puzzle it out for themselves. It was a bit disappointing though that race is never really mentioned at all, despite one of the POV characters being a Black woman. Like, more thought is given to the unique experiences of an AI than to her experiences as a Black woman in New York.

If anyone who follows me is reading this, I KNOW Lucian's voice is utterly insufferable, it's intentional and eventually the POV will switch to another character who is not terrible.