A review by amyiw
Crossover by Joel Shepherd

5.0

Right from the beginning I attached to Cassandra (Sandy, April). Yes, she is artificial intelligence but she is just trying to live life, experience. But it just cannot happen, instead she is captured and vivisected. After being "saved", she doesn't have freedom or much of a life. It is all politics and not much is on her side until her actions put some strong backing to her side. Only now... she no longer has the freedom to live "her" life, but back to a similar life that she escaped. She has to navigate the politics and figure out who she can trust and who she will back during the severe political conflict that continues to have fire fights on the streets, where there never were fire fights before.

Sandy is a straightforward thinker and has a strong idea of what she considers right and wrong. She has been betrayed and it seems like it might happen again. Right from the start I was routing for her and wanted it to work out for her. It seemed like everything was working against her and perhaps the bad happening in the politics is because of her existence. Where does she fit in this universe. Much of the story revolves around how she deals with her emotions, and how others deal with them. The rest is the politics and try to stop a coup to the government.

I was riveted from the beginning though it was slower in the beginning as it was one sided. The only issue I really can say is it sometime got mired in the politics were a little less could have been used. I really really liked this one and will definitely go on.