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The Little Android by Marissa Meyer
3.75
emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Guiseppe! Can you make me a real girl! Pardon, I meant Ursula - the difference between sentient and sapiant. Mech 6.0 is a self aware sentient-sapient android and it's a tragedy.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
What a sweet little tale of a droid and emotion, love, communication all of it - or the essence of human interaction. And pain. Both kinds of pain.

Character Development/Favorite Character:
Mech 6.0/Hoshi-Star is a curious droid. And even though that killed the cat - Mech 6.0 is becoming Becoming self aware, becoming curious, becoming something more. She feels fear and rage and is overtaken by spontaneity. And then, there's jealousy.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
Mech 6.0 feeling pure reactionary instinct and then diving into a vat of oil. Her machinery recognizes this act ad "self-destructive" sequence.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Listening to him felt like being plugged into a power dock, feeling the gentle current of electricity warm and enliven her.” (Star on Dataran)
🖤 “She could not stand to be lost to the darkness forever, when there was still a whole universe she’d never seen.” (On being brave. On freedom)
🖤 “All humans were similar, with their two eyes and protruding noses and five-fingered, fleshy hands.” (Mech6.0 summing up human features )
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Mechdroids
■Android and Human Character names here are LEVELS
■Dataran's Locket with the universe in it

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