He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, and is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. I am always torn with Haig's work, it reads and feels like a top quality Hallmark movie, but always gives me the sense of trying too hard to be such. That's the backstory to a book that opens with our alien narrator finding himself in the body of the professor, whom he has just assassinated. We humans do weird things all the time without thinking about it, and it’s books like this one that make you realise that and make you stop to wonder why. But although I liked this book for being about humans from a non-human angle and the insight that allowed, sometimes the tone of it felt overexplainy and most of the time I was a little bored.

But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married, or they don’t get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realise they would have done it the same, and then they die.If you'd have handed me this book without telling me the author, I probably could have guessed it was from Matt Haig because it feels so distinctly Him. They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up with, and yet they still pursue advancement for advancement's sake, and for the pursuit of money and fame they all crave so much. For those that don’t know, a human is a real bipedal lifeform of mid-range intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe. Disguised as Martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music, and a taste for peanut butter.

The Vonnadorians feel that humans are emotionally and as a society ill-equipped to have this knowledge.

This hypothesis involves prime numbers and the rate at which the amount of prime numbers become smaller as numbers get larger(which numbers grow to infinity). Matt Haig is a must-read author for me, as his books make me feel understood, uplifted, and - you guessed it - human. of me is upset about this because it was so wonderfully brilliant and I need another right now, but the other 10% is happy because this is the only book that has brought me this much feeling to my life, and I can’t review Haig every week, can I?

There are tons of quotes about how “love is life” and how “it’s only through our flaws that we can truly appreciate humankind. The way this alien views humanity cracks me up because he doesn't understand anything about our people or our world, and seeing him experience humanity for the first time was so entertaining.

Funny and life affirming, it’s one of those rarest of books; a feel good read that will stay with you long after reading. When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do.