Reviews

Finna by Nino Cipri

kaboom2016's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

kayttea's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

cal_the_queer's review

adventurous funny mysterious reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

katharina_s's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Strong character development? No

3.0

onetrooluff's review

3.0

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this book. The premise, with wormholes spawning in an IKEA analog, is awesome, and I enjoyed all the sci-fi aspects. However, the book also spends a lot of time with the main characters analyzing and reacting to their recent breakup, and that's usually the opposite of something I'm interested in reading about. There is a solid representation of severe anxiety and depression in here, which I appreciated, as well as queer characters and a trans person. I confess that while the pronouns were well handled, I had trouble understanding Jules's history. I think this is a failure of understanding on my part. Is Jules a trans man or a trans woman? Or neither? Because of the genderless pronouns, I just don't know. *Edited to add... ok, I think I get it now. So someone can transition to non-binary? So Jules is a trans non-binary person?

It didn't detract from the story, but it did pull me out of it more than once.

Without giving anything away, I will say that I didn't love the ending. I am curious whether a full length novel is planned, because if so, I could deal with the ending better.

ka_schulze's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

allie_rose's review against another edition

4.0

The author’s hatred of IKEA feels personal…

hedsek's review

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Egh I did really want to like this but I think it should have been a video game or something since the mechanics seem to already work that way anyway and all the side characters have major npc energy. The main characters were interesting but a bit underdeveloped. The fact that it mentions being anti-capitalist but truly does nothing more than saying it's bad that companies see employees as expendable and having a few 'capitslism amirite' jokes also feels a bit cheap, especially considering

that the company asks the main characters to do something pretty unethical which they barely reflect on, proceed to do and somehow it turns out fine with the person affected randomly finding it a good idea for plot reasons only

. The idea behind this book is pretty fun and I got some chuckles out of the hive stuff tho.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

anniedn's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

riverwind's review

3.0

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. It read like a creative writing exercise in a college class. It had queer representation, but it was ham-fisted and clumsy. In this type of satire, humor and wit are necessary, but there wasn’t any. It felt like this author read Horrorstor and listened to the SCP podcast about the transdimensional IKEA and decided to make their own version of it.

Criticisms aside, the book was well written in places and the protagonist was sympathetic and relatable enough to carry the story. Everyone else was just fairly hollow.

Will probably read the second one in the series.