Little Eyes ★★★★★

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★★★★★

Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin is a fiction book about a new toy that takes the world by storm.

Checked this book out from the library (on a day when I checked out waaay too many books) and had a lot of pressure to finish it before it was due because I couldn’t renew it! (Don’t worry I finished it AND returned it on time)

A new toy called a kentuki has just been released. It's an animal that rolls around your house. The caveat is it has a camera and there's someone on the other side operating it. People around the world go gaga for these new devices choosing to be keepers or dwellers.​ The book is made up of short stories of people's experiences in different cities as keepers or dwellers. An older woman in Peru dwells in a twentysomething German girl's kentuki; In Antigua, a 12-year-old boy liberates his kentuki to explore Norway. In Croatia, a man tries to take advantage of the system to make some money. Sometimes things go right and it's almost like a meet cute. Sometimes things go terribly wrong, and one party is quite awful. Kind of like a dumpster fire, you know things will not end well, but you can't look away. It's hard to say more aside from the fact that this is such a unique book and I absolutely loved it - Schweblin is my kind of writer.

I have also read Fever Dream by Schweblin and it’s fantastic - read that book in one sitting!

If you liked Little Eyes, I also recommend Needful Things by Stephen King, Finna by Nino Cipri, Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, and Big Machine by Victor LaValle.

Happy reading!

Ms.Bjork