Tag: remarkably bright creatures

Fiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪

What an unusual and delightful story. Remarkably Bright Creatures is a split narrative that follows three vastly different characters. Tova began cleaning at the aquarium after her husband’s death. It serves as a distraction for her from both the loss of her husband, and her son, who disappeared more than thirty years prior. Our second narrator is the aquarium octopus, Marcellus, who forms an unlikely friendship with Tova as he sees her come through every night. His narration was fascinating and insightful and somehow felt not at all far-fetched. Lastly, we have Cameron, who is out of sorts on a search for his birth father and the inheritance he imagines he deserves.

These three characters were remarkably different and each of them grew so much over the course of the story. I loved seeing their growing insight into themselves and their pasts. They were each so distinctly quirky and getting to know them was such a pleasure.

This was definitely a slow burn of a story, but even without a lot of action I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next.

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