You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph Scott
Overall Rating - 4.5
Emotional Impact Score - 5
Thought-Provoking Score - 4
Character Score - 5
Plot Score - 3.5
Worldbuilding Score - 3
Prose Score - 3
Right off the bat - this is the first book I’ve read by Andrew Joseph Scott. I spent much of this book very confused on what the Hive was. There was a lot of information that wasn’t known. I think that’s something you have to come to terms with. I’ve never seen such raw relatable feelings around being trans and what it feels like on the inside.
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Obviously, Sophie was not a boy. She was a girl who just had to try very, very hard to be a girl. She was a girl who looked at pictures of transgender men on social media and got pissed because they got to be men and she didn’t. If she really was a boy, somebody would have told her. Somebody would’ve given her permission to do something about it.
I had very middling feelings about it until the final 1/3 and then it skyrocketed to something entirely new.