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thinde's review
2.0
Weak sauce.
This story, set several hundred years in the future, could be translated to North America 20 years ago with only minor editing. A self-driving car is shocking and unusual. They can't translate common languages on the fly. People are tracked-down by canvassing door to door.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to a ground-breaking A.I. which arrives fully mature, but for some reason, halts its development at the human level. No singularity for you. At one point the story goes on for more than five chapters but the author seems to forget the A.I. entirely. Its whole job in the book is to act as a problem-solving MacGuffin.
The sci-fi elements are just bad. Species from different planetary biomes can apparently have viable offspring... because "DNA and science and stuff." The good-guys are adopted by an alien creature that is, in all important ways, identical to a cat. A half-assed romance is attempted between the two leads but it feels forced. I could go on and on with a list of formulaic tropes but I'm done.
This story, set several hundred years in the future, could be translated to North America 20 years ago with only minor editing. A self-driving car is shocking and unusual. They can't translate common languages on the fly. People are tracked-down by canvassing door to door.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to a ground-breaking A.I. which arrives fully mature, but for some reason, halts its development at the human level. No singularity for you. At one point the story goes on for more than five chapters but the author seems to forget the A.I. entirely. Its whole job in the book is to act as a problem-solving MacGuffin.
The sci-fi elements are just bad. Species from different planetary biomes can apparently have viable offspring... because "DNA and science and stuff." The good-guys are adopted by an alien creature that is, in all important ways, identical to a cat. A half-assed romance is attempted between the two leads but it feels forced. I could go on and on with a list of formulaic tropes but I'm done.
bookbandit's review
5.0
This a pretty interesting story about a girl trying to figure out herself. I do like the fact that the side characters are just as memorable as the Mc is. If book 2 is half as good as this book, I can see myself getting invested in this series.
Long story short. Girl is super smart, but socially awkward. Girl is runs away from her past. Joins the military. Is too smart for the military and gets booted. Then starts a company to help change the galaxy....oh...btw, she also has a fully intelligent A.I. with her helping her out. Making them both more human in the process while also learning to deal with her past.
yeah.....and the A.I. is snarky af.
Long story short. Girl is super smart, but socially awkward. Girl is runs away from her past. Joins the military. Is too smart for the military and gets booted. Then starts a company to help change the galaxy....oh...btw, she also has a fully intelligent A.I. with her helping her out. Making them both more human in the process while also learning to deal with her past.
yeah.....and the A.I. is snarky af.
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