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A beautiful biography that manages to make everyone human, without making them saints or sinners.

Nice art, silly plot.

Lovely story where monsters have empathy and care about humans. It reminds me of a long way to a small planet in the overall focus on interpersonal dynamics.

This book has not aged well. There is a robot, a man, and a woman and then everyone else are essentially half awake idiots who commit suicide in the streets. So far, so good, but the dynamics involved lead the man to be the primary actor and the woman to require saving and... there are no surprises. It just trundles. The twist is obvious, and the workaround is also obvious and cringeworthy.

I'm consistently surprised by what a great writer Stjepan Šejić is -- funny, well thought out plots, not too predictable, and some genuinely disturbing monsters. The art's pretty great too.

I read it for the plot.

Okay. I liked the overall approach to humanity on the part of the aliens (basically: humans are trash because they think they own all the life on their planet) but I found the day to day mechanics of the book to be dull.

The humans, especially the scientists, do aggressively stupid things and get stomped for it, sulk and repeat.

The alien is hulking and says little and broods, yet secretly has googly eyes for the protagonist.

Still, it's better than average.