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jessicafee86's review against another edition
3.0
A fun read about a disheveled (yet handsome) professor and his clumsy (yet smart) female assistant who create a robot with artificial intelligence that gets stolen by a rival professor. There were a lot of things that I really enjoyed about this book and a lot of things that I didn't. Overall I read the whole thing and it was the perfect palate cleanser for all the dark books I've been reading, like I said earlier it's a lot of fun, but that's about it. Not a whole lot of substance and basically 0 thinking needed to read this one.
Pros:
This book is a really short, easy read. It's the junk food of it's genre, incredibly predictable but in a fun Nancy Drew meets Clive Cussler sort of way. You knows what going to happen but the details are fuzzy enough that you keep reading.
Phaeton was by far my favorite part of this whole story. Phaeton is the robot who's created by Professor Alistair and doesn't really become a character until about the middle of the book. I don't know exactly what it was that got me hooked on his character but he's the reason I kept reading.
If you're looking for a quirky romance without the raunchiness, sex or swearing that's so common now, this book is perfect. If it were a movie it might get a PG rating, but would lean heavily towards a simple G rating.
Cons:
The novel tried really hard to imitate a classic dime store detective novel and had no problems letting you know it... over and over and over again. It really started to take me out of the story.
"He would never survive in one of in one of the dime novels..."
"It often turned out that way in the dime novels..."
"He sounds just like one of your dime novels..."
Annoyance number 2 was the weird western thrown in this story that had nothing to do with anything. A girl named Calico Kate whose best friend is a horse named Pecos is upset when a bad man decides that he's going to steal away her Pa's farm. At the end of almost every chapter there was an additional page of Calico Kate's story but it never connected to the main one. It's like the author wanted to write a short story, but didn't know what to do with it, so she just shoved random pages of it through out the book.
Pros:
This book is a really short, easy read. It's the junk food of it's genre, incredibly predictable but in a fun Nancy Drew meets Clive Cussler sort of way. You knows what going to happen but the details are fuzzy enough that you keep reading.
Phaeton was by far my favorite part of this whole story. Phaeton is the robot who's created by Professor Alistair and doesn't really become a character until about the middle of the book. I don't know exactly what it was that got me hooked on his character but he's the reason I kept reading.
If you're looking for a quirky romance without the raunchiness, sex or swearing that's so common now, this book is perfect. If it were a movie it might get a PG rating, but would lean heavily towards a simple G rating.
Cons:
The novel tried really hard to imitate a classic dime store detective novel and had no problems letting you know it... over and over and over again. It really started to take me out of the story.
"He would never survive in one of in one of the dime novels..."
"It often turned out that way in the dime novels..."
"He sounds just like one of your dime novels..."
Annoyance number 2 was the weird western thrown in this story that had nothing to do with anything. A girl named Calico Kate whose best friend is a horse named Pecos is upset when a bad man decides that he's going to steal away her Pa's farm. At the end of almost every chapter there was an additional page of Calico Kate's story but it never connected to the main one. It's like the author wanted to write a short story, but didn't know what to do with it, so she just shoved random pages of it through out the book.
barb4ry1's review against another edition
3.0
Another fast and easy read. Josephine Mann is down to her last two dollars when she bumps into Professor Alistair Conn. The professor is in need of a lab assistant, and Jo desperately needs a job. Obviously, it's the Hand of Fate.
Profesor Conn is not only handsome and skilled, he’s also created a marvelous automaton who comes to life with a little help from Jo. The thing is there’s other scientist interested in stealing Phaeton (our robot).
It was an easy, pleasant book perfect for commute. It’s short, easy to read and rather optimistic. Also, it’s well edited. On the other hand, the story is very predictable and a bit naïve. The romance is a bit awkward and juvenile.
In the end, I wasn’t thrilled with this book. If, however, you’re a parent and look for something nice with almost no violence for your children, it’s a book worth considering.
Profesor Conn is not only handsome and skilled, he’s also created a marvelous automaton who comes to life with a little help from Jo. The thing is there’s other scientist interested in stealing Phaeton (our robot).
It was an easy, pleasant book perfect for commute. It’s short, easy to read and rather optimistic. Also, it’s well edited. On the other hand, the story is very predictable and a bit naïve. The romance is a bit awkward and juvenile.
In the end, I wasn’t thrilled with this book. If, however, you’re a parent and look for something nice with almost no violence for your children, it’s a book worth considering.
writeramyshannon's review against another edition
4.0
A light, fun read.
The book intrigued me when the author was nominated for one of my 2018 Indie Author Appreciation Showcases on my author blog, and the author was nice enough to share the story with me for a review. I enjoyed this story, though there was a part that didn't seem to fit in with the story, but with that overlooked, I enjoyed the flow of the story and the characters. It seemed to be written where it could relate to old dime-store novels, and it was mentioned a few times in the story. I think the story could have used a little more depth, but I enjoyed this read. It was a fun and fast read.
The book intrigued me when the author was nominated for one of my 2018 Indie Author Appreciation Showcases on my author blog, and the author was nice enough to share the story with me for a review. I enjoyed this story, though there was a part that didn't seem to fit in with the story, but with that overlooked, I enjoyed the flow of the story and the characters. It seemed to be written where it could relate to old dime-store novels, and it was mentioned a few times in the story. I think the story could have used a little more depth, but I enjoyed this read. It was a fun and fast read.
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