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adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Basically Mad Max but robots. For once, I actually feel like this story would have played out better on a screen than it did in a book. The action scenes were well done and interesting, but the descriptions started getting repetitive by the end. There are only so many ways a bot can be killed by a plasma rifle before the descriptions start to blend together. There were a few plot points that didn't feel real that I don't think I'd have noticed as much in a movie theater, and Cargill has a habit of ending every single chapter with some sort of pithy one liner. Beyond that, I really enjoyed the exploration of close-to-human-but-not robots dealing with the world humans left them, and most of the characters were interesting and easy to fall for. I especially enjoyed the depictions of the "illness" bots go through when their systems start to wear down.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, and Gun violence
Minor: Animal death
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