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A review by readingwitherin
Girl of Flesh and Metal by Alicia Ellis
medium-paced
4.0
Lena is a young woman whose parents are very into tech and run a tech company that specializes in robotics, and have also started working on making robotic limbs for people that will act and eventually look exactly like real body parts do. Lena is very against this and is anti-tech for the most part, but her entire world ends up changing when she gets into an accident that causes her to have a robotic arm.
She is understandably upset about this considering her views on robotics, but things get worse as her 'friends' abandon her. She does make new/old friends again though and these two end up helping her not only deal with accepting her arm but also figure out what is happening to her and why people who work in her parent's companies' children are ending up dead. Lena is also dealing with her arm doing things she doesn't want it to do at times and is also living off of very little sleep which makes everything far more complicated. She has no real adult to turn to during this time, leaving it just to her and her new friends to figure it out on their own.
Overall I loved this book and couldn't get enough of it. Lena is a character that I loved, she was extremely smart and was piecing things together before anyone else was. Of course, she does make some questionable decisions because she's a teenager but those were to be expected especially considering the position she was in. All of the robotics stuff mentioned in the story was very easy to follow along with, even the programming talk. We got to see how/why her arm was doing certain things after a while and how it pertained to the other things that we're having to do with her life. Now for the mystery part of this story and what helped me love it so much. Now I thought it was several different people throughout the book that was murdering the kids of her parent's company given the clues that Lena and her friends found. I didn't figure out who the killer was, and I loved that. Not knowing the entire time and figuring out what was happening and why it was happening alongside Lena was fun.
I'm very interested to see where the next book in the series go and I have already pre-ordered it!
Girl of Flesh and Metal not only shows a different very high-tech world, but it also has a mystery of who is killing off these teenagers of Lena's parent's employees and why they were doing it.
She is understandably upset about this considering her views on robotics, but things get worse as her 'friends' abandon her. She does make new/old friends again though and these two end up helping her not only deal with accepting her arm but also figure out what is happening to her and why people who work in her parent's companies' children are ending up dead. Lena is also dealing with her arm doing things she doesn't want it to do at times and is also living off of very little sleep which makes everything far more complicated. She has no real adult to turn to during this time, leaving it just to her and her new friends to figure it out on their own.
Overall I loved this book and couldn't get enough of it. Lena is a character that I loved, she was extremely smart and was piecing things together before anyone else was. Of course, she does make some questionable decisions because she's a teenager but those were to be expected especially considering the position she was in. All of the robotics stuff mentioned in the story was very easy to follow along with, even the programming talk. We got to see how/why her arm was doing certain things after a while and how it pertained to the other things that we're having to do with her life. Now for the mystery part of this story and what helped me love it so much. Now I thought it was several different people throughout the book that was murdering the kids of her parent's company given the clues that Lena and her friends found. I didn't figure out who the killer was, and I loved that. Not knowing the entire time and figuring out what was happening and why it was happening alongside Lena was fun.
I'm very interested to see where the next book in the series go and I have already pre-ordered it!
Girl of Flesh and Metal not only shows a different very high-tech world, but it also has a mystery of who is killing off these teenagers of Lena's parent's employees and why they were doing it.