Tara Reads’s Reviews > Project Hail Mary > Status Update

Is this book allergic to action verbs why are there 11 straight alternating lines of dialogue and NOTHING about the scene or action verbs or anything how is this book so hyped I don’t get it

“No one ever talks about the really hard part of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns. I’m going to go with ‘he’ for now, because it seems rude to call a thinking being ‘it.’”

Supposedly super smart science guy has never heard of neopronouns, non binary people, or how sex + gender are not the same. They, xe, it, come on there are so many options. Ugh.

Probably made a mistake watching the movie trailer before this but also it kind of set the vibe