This book would be great for critical thinking and or gifted education classes for about grades 5-6-7. I do not want to give spoilers, but the reader figures out many things from clues given in the text. It would be excellent for students to go back and figure out how and when they reached conclusions. The book isn't very long and would offer discussion possibilities in class. FUN READ! ( )

10yo: Boring, but you still wanted to read and see what happened.

Quote-Bomb!
Was that what death meant—no answers, a finally locked door? As my foot touched the floor I decided what was wrong, because death always left a why, and a how, and a what next. Questions weren’t the same as answers—they didn’t tell me this dead girls name—but for her sake I wasn’t going to let them go.

Why did we know the things we did? When did the knowing settle in, like a circling bird to the earth?

She stood in the center of a spinning globe, transfixed and taking refuge in the patterns.

I almost understood—because we learned by adding one thing to another thing to make a third we hadn’t known before—except May didn’t add things the way we did. She felt them, like the weight of an object in the dark of a pocket, hidden but still at hand.
That was May’s everything. That was May’s heart.

Now her part of any conversation would be left unsaid, and any direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made up of smoke, backward in memory ad forward in futures never to occur.

LOTS of good quotes in this book. Unfortunately, all of those quotes occurred in the last 20 or so pages of the book.
I mean, this book was alright. It was sort of sci-fi, but not really, because the sci-fi elements weren’t center to the story, nor were they really explained. This book was about people and how people to the same things in different ways. It’s about questions and answers and that there’s not an answer to every question.
The characters—were a little flat. Most of them were robots, true, but still.
The plot was very minimal.
The world was hardly explained.
Normally, that would earn a book a great big F. But, for this book, I think that was sort of the point, so I’ll let it slide.
This book made a point. It was interesting, but not very exciting.
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10yo: Boring, but you still wanted to read and see what happened.

Interesting book although it leaves you with more questions than answers. There were times when I really wasn't sure I liked it but all in all, it was enjoyable. I don't mind books that don't answer every question so I did like it but if you have an issue with not really understanding what's going on, you might not. ( )