remarkably bright creatures by shelby van pelt

The rest is narrated by Marin Ireland, pretty much a legend in audiobook narration. Definitely listen to this one, because Michael Urie stole the show with his narration of Marcellus. Marcellus the curmudgeonly octopus is what you get if you take Backman’s Ove and give him eight tentacles and nine super-charged brains. She seamlessly crafted these perfectly flawed people in separate spheres of this delightful universe and brought them together in such a satisfying way. I loved Van Pelt’s development of character. Tova carries around the kind of sadness very few humans could ever understand, but when she meets Marcellus, the giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium, she doesn’t know just how much change he will bring to her life. She doesn’t need a job, but she needs the distraction that staying busy gives her. Tova Sullivan lives a quiet life keeping her little house tidy and working as a night shift janitor at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. It’s a debut novel from Shelby Van Pelt, and I certainly hope to see so much more from her in the future, because I need to regularly ugly cry at the end of a book to remember I am actually human. This was my favorite of my reads for 2022. When I decided to restart the blog, I couldn’t think of a better book to begin than a review for this gem.

Remarkably bright creatures by shelby van pelt