4.75/5? I don’t know.

I finished this book at 3:30 AM & texted multiple people about it, it’s one of those books.

The Premise: An alien comes to Earth in the body of a distinguished professor of mathematics, Andrew Martin, to erase his discovery that would guarantee a giant leap for mankind.

If you want to read a scientifically accurate book, don’t pick this one. This isn’t a Sci-Fi you read for the technicalities, it’s one you read for the characters, the plot and the Emily Dickinson poetry.

Andrew, the alien, is a lovable and witty character who throughout his mission on Earth cannot seem to grasp why humans do things that they do. Why clothes are mandatory and why they have this weird thing in the middle of their repulsive faces (known as a nose) seem to confuse him for quite some time.

I could list all the reasons I loved this book but that will have a lot of spoilers, so in short, if you like dogs, peanut butter sandwiches, music, poetry or philosophical takes on human emotions, read this book.

The -0.25 is just because of a tiny detail in the second part that I wish happened differently, but even then Matt Haig used it wonderfully.