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A review by bookstolivewith
Ask Me Anything by P.Z. Reizin
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
This one was... weird. Not necessarily bad weird, but definitely on the odder end of things. Ask Me Anything by P.Z Reizin is a little bit sci-fi and a little bit contemporary romance, and yes, the overlap is strange. But good strange. Or at least, neutral strange. Definitely not bad strange.
Daisy Parsloe is not great at dating the right men — in fact, right now she’s definitely dating the wrong one and everyone can see it but her. Her dating history is a catastrophe, her mom is getting less and less comprehensible by the day, and her job is barely hanging on by a thread. And yet, she’s a great person who by all accounts should have a totally wonderful life. Or at least, that’s what her “smart” fridge-freezer thinks. (Yes, you read that right.) So when he (?) gets together with all of Daisy’s other smart appliances — including her electronic toothbrush but not her laptop — they decide to intervene in her dating life to find her just the right man to turn her life around. But it’s really not as simple as they think.
Look, I’m still not totally sure if I liked this one or not but I definitely couldn’t put it down and it was so weird that I had to know what happened next. Also, it made me want to put a piece of tape over every camera and audio source on every possible piece of smart technology I own, so it’s got paranoia going for it I guess.
So, if new-age smart tech and lovable characters are your thing, Ask Me Anything might be for you.
Daisy Parsloe is not great at dating the right men — in fact, right now she’s definitely dating the wrong one and everyone can see it but her. Her dating history is a catastrophe, her mom is getting less and less comprehensible by the day, and her job is barely hanging on by a thread. And yet, she’s a great person who by all accounts should have a totally wonderful life. Or at least, that’s what her “smart” fridge-freezer thinks. (Yes, you read that right.) So when he (?) gets together with all of Daisy’s other smart appliances — including her electronic toothbrush but not her laptop — they decide to intervene in her dating life to find her just the right man to turn her life around. But it’s really not as simple as they think.
Look, I’m still not totally sure if I liked this one or not but I definitely couldn’t put it down and it was so weird that I had to know what happened next. Also, it made me want to put a piece of tape over every camera and audio source on every possible piece of smart technology I own, so it’s got paranoia going for it I guess.
So, if new-age smart tech and lovable characters are your thing, Ask Me Anything might be for you.