A review by connor1736
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

4.0

I feel like all of my reviews essentially say "the first half sucked but the rest was good," but this book was particularly bad. Nothing interesting happened in the first 100 pages. I learned almost nothing about Aurora (the planet where the story takes place) and the characters basically just whined about how impossible their task was. I feel like half the worldbuilding went toward describing how Auroran bathrooms work.

Then, suddenly, the story gets real crazy real quick and I was hooked. Compared to the first two robot books, this one does a much better job of revealing things gradually, rather than dropping everything at the end. Even so, the ending was the best of any book I've read this year. I will definitely have to re-read this book some time with the knowledge I now have.