Official Review: Losing Normal by Francis Moss

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Re: Official Review: Losing Normal by Francis Moss

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This sounds like a interesting read. People seating in front of the tv like zombies is realistic. Thanks for your review.
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melissy370 wrote: 28 Aug 2018, 15:16 This sounds like a interesting read. People seating in front of the tv like zombies is realistic. Thanks for your review.
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Character-driven stories always pique my interest. I am glad that the characters in the book are likeable and human. Great review
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Jgideon wrote: 29 Aug 2018, 03:52 Character-driven stories always pique my interest. I am glad that the characters in the book are likeable and human. Great review
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Sounds like quite the read! I wonder what Sara's capabilities are and why she is described as "unorthodox." I have already added it to my shelf, despite the high body count. It's a real shame about the errors though, bad enough to detract a star from the rating. Awesome review!
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Vickie Noel wrote: 29 Aug 2018, 08:28 Sounds like quite the read! I wonder what Sara's capabilities are and why she is described as "unorthodox." I have already added it to my shelf, despite the high body count. It's a real shame about the errors though, bad enough to detract a star from the rating. Awesome review!
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We already have "couch potatoes", so this doesn't sound too far from something that could realistically happen, but I don't think I'm interested in reading this. Thanks for the thorough review though!
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MsTri wrote: 29 Aug 2018, 09:52 We already have "couch potatoes", so this doesn't sound too far from something that could realistically happen, but I don't think I'm interested in reading this. Thanks for the thorough review though!
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What an interesting book! Thank you for the review. It's great to see that the main character is someone with Asperger's syndrome. I feel that not many books write characters with syndromes so I'm happy for this book. It's also set in an apocalyptic world so I'm interested to see how it turns out in the end. It's too bad about the editing in the end though. :(
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Allyseria wrote: 29 Aug 2018, 15:47 What an interesting book! Thank you for the review. It's great to see that the main character is someone with Asperger's syndrome. I feel that not many books write characters with syndromes so I'm happy for this book. It's also set in an apocalyptic world so I'm interested to see how it turns out in the end. It's too bad about the editing in the end though. :(
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I love the premise of a protagonist with Asperger’s syndrome and amazing abilities trying to save the world. However, I do not like the lack of editing. Thanks for the review!
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Yolimari wrote: 30 Aug 2018, 02:21 I love the premise of a protagonist with Asperger’s syndrome and amazing abilities trying to save the world. However, I do not like the lack of editing. Thanks for the review!
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A main character with Asperger's is a great angle. I'm not good with technobabble and sci-fi of this sort, but I really enjoyed your review :)
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SABRADLEY wrote: 30 Aug 2018, 12:08 A main character with Asperger's is a great angle. I'm not good with technobabble and sci-fi of this sort, but I really enjoyed your review :)
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Losing Normal sounds like a fascinating read. The tiff between the AI called Sophia and a human named Alex Fine to, suffering from high functioning downsyndrome, sounds very interesting. Also, the existence of a AI named Sopia in the real world makes the scenario all the more interesting.

Thank you for the detailed review.
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