Sunday, April 22, 2018

vN (by Madeline Ashby)

Trying to sum up the premise of this book feels impossible (a longer review by Charlie Jane Anders is here) but my best try: a sentient humanoid robot child eats her evil robot granny, grows up overnight, and goes on the run.

The world-building here is fascinating and dark. (Like, human-on-robot pedophilia dark.) I enjoyed the characters, particularly protagonist Amy and her (human) father.

The storyline is sometimes a bit confusing (for example, at one point there is a prison escape but it kind of cuts from Amy trying to escape to a scene where nobody's chasing her, and it's confusing how she got from point A to point B). But the worldbuilding and overall story makes up for it.

I'm intrigued enough to give the second book in the series a shot. Hopefully we get to find out more about what happens after the (also somewhat confusing) ending.

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