Publication: December 16th 2015 by Soul Mate Publishing
Source: Received a free copy of this in exchange for an honest review from ebooksforreview.com. Thank you!
Goodreads Summary: They weren't supposed to have feelings.
Metal will Clash
In a not-too-distant future, robots composed of metal for bones, electric cords for veins, and synthetics for skin are now available. For purchase. Eighteen-year-old Vienna Avery’s home is going to change forever, now that her mom purchased a French Chef Robot to cook and reside in their house.
Secrets will Unfold
The government claimed robots were indifferent, unthinking pieces of metal and elastic—assistance for hire to humans. Vienna never believed much of what the government said. The pieces didn’t always fit. And now Vienna knows why, because she’s uncovered the government’s secret: that robots have emotions, sucking Vienna into the underground world of feeling, thinking, and sovereign robots.
Sparks will Fly
Alec Cypher is everything a robot is not supposed to be: deep, dark, and dangerously human. And for some reason, he wants to save Vienna from the government’s prying, vindictive eyes. Going forward, Vienna will have to learn to trust robots and battle the growing feelings she never thought possible . . . feelings for the green-eyed, soul-searching robot named Alec.
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My Thoughts:
I had such a love-hate relationship with this book the entirety of reading it. It's one of those books, like John Green's is for me, where I like the idea of the book but the execution of it just wasn't there. I love that it's written about robots and that's something pretty unique among the young adult sci-fi genre. I've personally only read one other YA book with robots in it and that one just didn't do it for me either. Bottom line for this one is that I just wanted more. More feeling. More explanation. It just needed to be deeper.
The main character had me wanting to shake her practically the entire book. She jumped to odd conclusions and sometimes even leaped to them where you found yourself wondering how she even came up with that. She has a deep distrust for robots from the beginning of the book but she never really says why just that she thinks it's wrong for them to exist and to be so commonplace in their society. I would've wanted her to have a backstory maybe. She had a bad experience with a robot; she doesn't trust technology, etc, something other than her just freaking out and saying "Robots!!!!" over and over in her head.
I also found the story to be a little on the repetitive side. Example: Vienna distrusts robots (Robots!!!!) but does get involved with a group of them. Vienna gets upset with aforementioned robot from withholding information from her. Vienna runs away. Repeat. When the main twist happens in the story, she surprised me from her reactions. If I had been in the same situation as she and had suddenly been released from said situation, I would be asking questions. Yet for once Vienna doesn't ask any questions, she just walks away and then tortures herself with the people she left behind. She was just a difficult character to get on with and to understand. I also found her relationship to be a little nauseating after she is released. If I had to read "baby" one more time...
Lastly, I was just plain confused a lot of the book and found it hard to follow, especially at the end. I'm not sure why her parents' house changed colors. I had a theory about what was really going on since we had yet to get an explanation of the entire bizarre twist situation mentioned above, and yet there is never an explanation of her parents' house. So...while your only child is on the run for her life, you decide to do some home improvement? Okay. My theory wasn't correct by the way so I still have no idea what that part was about. However, I did really enjoy the actual ending in the last couple pages. I thought it was a very interesting twist and was glad to FINALLY get a bit of an explanation. The last couple pages of the book was the best part of it in my opinion. I wish the entire book had been written that way.
Likes: The idea is very interesting. Robots were pretty interesting as well with their half-human, half-robot stuff and the way they're made. The ending was very good.
Dislikes: Hard to follow. I just couldn't get on with the main character. Just wanted more explanation and for the book to dig a little deeper.
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