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A review by jaybatson
reV by Madeline Ashby
2.0
I am sooo sad to have experienced this unfulfilling end to the trilogy. What started out as a novel immersion in the possible outcome of a “conscious robot” descended into the unrewarding imaginings of a sociopath that I (for one) did not want to read.
This final book of the vN trilogy follows the trajectory of Portia’s mind, which (as we know by now) lives in the cloud. Lacking a physical body, but saddled by her constrained, human-disparaging psyche, this book is written principally from her disturbed mind. It gives full rein to her human-bashing, her reactions, actions, judgements, her love of treating humans as ants, and her focus on eventually wiping them off the earth.
Amy, her granddaughter, provides the possible path out of hades. You’ll have to read to find out if that happens.
Regardless, though, this book-long descent into a sociopathic mind is depressing, unrewarding, and reading time I wish I could have back to read something I enjoyed. I did not enjoy this, despite enjoying the first two quite a lot. I just do not want to descend into a depraved mind like this.
This final book of the vN trilogy follows the trajectory of Portia’s mind, which (as we know by now) lives in the cloud. Lacking a physical body, but saddled by her constrained, human-disparaging psyche, this book is written principally from her disturbed mind. It gives full rein to her human-bashing, her reactions, actions, judgements, her love of treating humans as ants, and her focus on eventually wiping them off the earth.
Amy, her granddaughter, provides the possible path out of hades. You’ll have to read to find out if that happens.
Regardless, though, this book-long descent into a sociopathic mind is depressing, unrewarding, and reading time I wish I could have back to read something I enjoyed. I did not enjoy this, despite enjoying the first two quite a lot. I just do not want to descend into a depraved mind like this.