Goodreads lies. Because let's be honest here for a second. I picked this book because it was nominated, by Goodreads, for their Choice Awards, IN THE SCIENCE-FICTION SECTION! You can say a lot about this book, but sci-fi it is not. It is really well written, the characters are great, and the emotional dilemma is handled with a rare level of grace, but it is not sci-fi.

I wondered and pondered many questions myself because of this book, which I probably would not have picked up since it is far from my usual cup of tea. My usual is sci-fi, which again, for clarity, this book is not.

So is it bad that Goodreads lied? Well yes, they shouldn't nominate a literary novel that has a thin veneer of science fiction in that section when there are so many great writers actually writing science fiction that would have benefited from a nomination. But I would have never picked up this book otherwise, so if I'm being selfish, maybe on occasion, a lie is in your best self-interest. Who knows.