Idiosyncratic

by Britt Nunes

"Humans are just a legend - a lie..."

To 19-year-old Les'ette, humans are a legend, a lie. They are dark fairytales about vicious creatures dwelling in the toxic forest outside Earth's fortressed cities. Many of those poisonous regions she has watched from the Federation's Orphan Train since she was a child.

But Les'ette can't afford to care about mysteries, or well, anything else for that matter. All she wants is for her little pest to abandon the idea of becoming her sister, the palm-greaser to stop admitting his feelings for her and most of all, to age out and be free of her nightmare before someone purchases her at auction.

When a mad scientist takes an interest in her, the threat of being his next lab rat becomes a disturbing possibility. As she straddles the fragile line of Dr. Upton's sanity, surviving the day is all she begins to want. With Dr. Upton employed by the government, Les’ette becomes entangled in the chaos stirring inside The Federation.

Genres: Science Fiction, Dystopia

282 pages, Paperback

Published September 14, 2017

About the author

Britt Nunes is a dork with an overactive imagination. She is addicted to rich words, adventurous sci-fi, sweet romances, and massive amounts of coffee. Britt writes sci-fi, dystopian, steampunk, dieselpunk, and sweet romances.

Reviews

[Kassidy]

*3.5*

A very unique story with fun twists and turns!

[Melissa Jacobson]

I loved this so so much! I adored the world and the characters. One of my favorite things about this story is how Britt Nunes just tosses her reader into the action and the world. There is no hand holding in this story and those are my favorite kinds of Sci fi reads. I love learning as I go instead of being greeted with a giant info dump that makes me not care about the plot from page one.
As I said the plot was fantastic and the characters were all so lovable. This was exactly what I wanted from a sci fi novella. Concise, action packed, with an ambiguous ending. I cannot recommend this enough!

My Booktalk - https://youtu.be/F32ywbKq81Y

[Hannah]

***I was sent this book from the author in exchange for an honest review***

Video review:

I enjoyed Idiosyncratic but I had some problems with it. My biggest problem was the lack of world building and descriptions. Knowing this was a sic-fi novella that followed people with green scales, I just kinda assumed it would take place on a different planet. It wasn't until a few chapter in that I realized it was set on Earth. I wish that had been clear earlier on or even in the synopsis. I'll go more into this in my video review.
The characters were good. I didn't love them but I didn't hate them either. Unfortunately all three of my favorite characters were hardly in the book. In fact, one of them also died. :(
But I think the best thing about this book was the plot. I thought it was clever but I also felt like I was missing half the book. I can only imagine that it would be incredibly difficult to write a good sci-fi/dystopian story when you're trying to squish it into a novella. The ending also felt very rushed.
Personally, I just think the story would have been better if it had more world building/descriptions, better character development, and was just overall a longer book.

[Jillian]

This book is written in sci-fi distoptian fashion.... before reading what I thought of the book you should know that I am not an avid reader... like at all... I read this book in 2 days I could not put it down!!! I was so drawn into the amazing world with these strange creatures and could really imagine myself there with the diesel punk type world of the future still with relics of the past. Britt really has the true talent to paint word pictures... I felt like I was right there with Lis'ette and could feel her pain and see her struggles. It has intrigue and keeps you guessing right to the end. I absolutely LOVED this book! I believe anyone who obtains this book will love it as much as I do!!!

[Allie Kat]

It was AMAZING!!!! Absolutely incredible! I am a very fast reader so I finished it in one day. It was a very interesting and heart pounding book. It is sprinkled with a little romance. ❤️ Which I like. I love the charters and everything. Even how you explain the world around you. I also love the cover it really grabs you. 🤓🙂

[James Jr.]

I liked the cast of characters in this book and the description of the world they lived in. The surprise ending was the best part. Spoilers? We find out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Sorry, that’s a different story. You guys aren’t ready for spoilers. Just go buy the book.

[A.R. Hellbender]

It took a while for this book to get good, but when the conflict started, it really started.
This is a book in which nothing is as it seems, and everything you think you know about the world it takes place in gets turned on its head.

[Todd Hofer]

A rich, fantastic world with in-depth and unique characters. Idiosyncratic is filled with mystery and excitement around every corner. You aren't info-dumped, but slowly given information as you read, which I absolutely love. You will laugh, you will shed tears, you will feel every emotion as you are taken into this world of astronauts, orphans and green scales. A wonderful book that I highly recommend.

Britt Nunes has easily become one of my favorite authors, this book just solidifies that.

[Stephanie]

Rich world, in depth story with a great twist at the end I didn't see coming. Another amazing book from the wildly talented Britt Nunes!

[Allie Kat]

I loved the characters and the story! I finished this book in one day. Don’t let how big it is fool you! If your an avid reader and live the story you’ll finish this quickly! I love all Britt’s work and can’t wait for her next masterpiece!