Book completed
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eve_primeAnnie Bot, by Sierra Greer. In the near future, Annie is a Cuddle Bunny model of partly organic robot. She belongs to Doug, who had decided somewhere along the line to switch her from normal robot mode to “autodidactic” mode (it means “self-teaching”) so that she’d seem more human to him. And now she’s self-aware and wondering what she actually wants.
This book was excellent! It had thematic elements in common with Murderbot (our protagonist is part robot, part organic) and The Echo Wife (if your ex-wife was too independent, why not replace her with a version you can own and control?). The story moves right along, the book is fairly short, and every chapter had surprises and dialogue that will make you think twice. I found myself not only sympathetic to Annie but also fully aware that many of her problems were not unlike those of certain human wives before feminism.
This book was excellent! It had thematic elements in common with Murderbot (our protagonist is part robot, part organic) and The Echo Wife (if your ex-wife was too independent, why not replace her with a version you can own and control?). The story moves right along, the book is fairly short, and every chapter had surprises and dialogue that will make you think twice. I found myself not only sympathetic to Annie but also fully aware that many of her problems were not unlike those of certain human wives before feminism.