#CBR12 Review #16: I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
Number 2 of my reads for the #CannonBookClub this June, and it’s a bit of a different tone from my previous read of The Disasters , but I have really enjoyed both so far! I Hope You Get This Message begins after earth unscrambles a message from an alien planet, stating that they will be deliberating whether or not to terminate earth within 1 week. While most of the world scrambles to bunker down or descends into chaos, this novel focuses on three teenagers each with goals of their own, mostly centered around finding people or getting messages to where they need to go before the end of the alien deliberations: Jesse just wants to find a way to give his mother a better life, Cate is looking for the father she never met after her mother gives her a letter she meant to send to him, and Adeem believes he hears a message from his sister who left home on the radio and now searches to reconnect with her. Without giving too much away, we follow the journey of these three young ...