Hi everyone. I'm Rincey this is Rincey Reads.
Today I'm going to be doing a book
review on The Unseen World by Liz Moore.
This is a literary fiction, well kind of
combined with a little bit of mystery.
In this story you are following this girl named Ada.
I believe at the beginning of the book she's
around 12 years old. And it flashes back and
forth in time from her childhood to
her adulthood. So at the beginning of the
story you find out that Ada is being
raised by this single father named David.
David is this brilliant scientist and he
homeschools Ada, so is significantly
smarter than most kids her age. He like
takes her to the lab with him and she
works on experiments with him and he
like works out all of his work with her
and things like that. So she ends up
being more advanced than most kids her age.
But then one day Ada realizes that
her father is starting to lose his
memory and because of that, as it
progresses, she ends up having to move in
with a family friend of theirs. And then
eventually it comes out that there are
things about her father's past that she
doesn't know. And so she sort of goes on
this quest to be able to figure out the
truth in her father's history and where
he came from and all this different stuff.
This book is so fantastic.
It's definitely the best book that I read in November.
I found this book to be so
compelling in a way that I haven't found
a lot of books to be this year. I feel
like a lot of the books that I'm reading
this year, while enjoying them, they're a lot
more like slow-moving, which is fine.
They do sort of like deeper character dives.
But this book finds the balance so well of
providing complex characters while are
providing a compelling plot that makes
you want to keep reading.
There's so much about the mystery of
this man that compels you as a reader
and compells Ada to just keep searching and
want to keep reading. As Ada discovers
more things, you slowly start to see more
and more of the layers in David's life
and you start to learn more and more
about his past and his history.
But even just beyond that, this is just a
compelling coming-of-age story.
Like I said, this spans throughout Ada's
lifetime or her childhood through her adulthood.
So you get to see her growing up,
you get to see her finding this stuff
about her family and her father. But also
you just see her sort of growing up and
her perspective on life and the world
around her and her family and the people
around her changing. I feel like this
book captures really well the essence of
growing up and realizing that the things
that you thought about your life in childhood,
you grow up a little bit and
you get some perspective and you realize
that things were not necessarily the way
that you thought they were.
I feel like that's something that
everyone has to go through as they're
growing up. You know, there are certain
situations that you may remember as a
kid that later on you get pieces of
information that makes you realize that
things were not necessarily the way you
thought they were. And I feel like
Liz Moore does such a fantastic job of
exploring the idea.
There's also just so much heart in this book.
This book made me really emotional.
I think that it's also just
because it explores very deeply a
father-daughter relationship. But I think
just the ideas of family and love and
purpose even is explored really well in
this book. I feel like there's something
here for everyone. There is this mystery
element that will comepl almost anyone.
There is this family element so if
you're someone who loves family stories,
there's something for you there. If you
just want compelling characters, there's
plenty of them in there. There's so much
about relationships and growing up,
even just like childhood friendships and
being an outcast and you know the
awkwardness of middle school and high
school and finding your place in the world.
Just so much of that is explored
and even just the ideas that when you
grow up you have a certain idea of what
your life will be like, what your career
and your job will be like and how that
changes so much because there's so much
that you can never predict about your
life or even about the world around you.
And how you deal and grapple
with that whole situation. It's so
fantastic and yet this book, I mean
it's probably like more than 400 pages, I believe.
But Liz Moore is able to explore and
describe and just talk about all of
these really complex, very human, very real ideas.
I just really, really love this book.
It's definitely up there with one of the best
books that I've read so far this year.
It's definitely a book that I'm going to
be buying a physical copy of because
it's so fantastic and I want to get this
in the hands of as many people as
possible. And when I buy a book I basically
just give it out to my friends all the time.
So I will definitely be purchasing a copy of
this book. So yeah, that is my quick
review of The Unseen World by Liz Moore.
If you've read this book, definitely a comment
down below letting me know what you guys
thought of it. Or if you have any
questions about this book, definitely
leave that down in the comments as well. Or if you've
read Liz Moore's other book, let me know how
that one is compared to this one.
So yeah, that's all I have for now and
thanks for watching
