Author: Betty Adams
Book: Humans Are Weird: We Took a Vote (Humans are Weird #2)
Published: December 2021
Publisher: Independently Published
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Hardcover
Rating
Synopsis:
Humans are an oddity. A mantis-like alien named Third Cousin wonders why a mass-produced broom, identical down to the last molecule to every other broom on the base, is the “wrong” broom. Also, scabs form to protect a wound until it heals. Why do humans insist on picking at them? One of the Winged (known as hell bats to the humans) named Seventh Flap asks a human friend about the connection between frustration and punching a wall. Fifteenth Sister, a medic, tries to understand why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake.
Review:
There are no epic space battles with strange aliens here. Aliens are working with humans but can’t seem to figure them out. Betty Adams’s first book, Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data, left me in stitches. Humans Are Weird, We Took a Votewas also a fun book but had fewer laughs. While many of the short vignettes, especially toward the end, got a chuckle out of me, some left me scratching my head every bit as much as the aliens. Why did roosting hell bats (which roost like terrestrial bats, by-the-way) remind a human of the old song “Hot Cross Buns,” for instance? Some jokes lacked a clear punchline. Sometimes, the jokes’ timing seemed off.
On the whole, however, Humans Are Weird: We Took a Vote was fun to read. I would still recommend it to those who have read Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data.
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