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A review by charliebookfanatic
Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood
3.0
The book is somewhat futuristic. It plays out in the middle of the 21st century where organic dogs are mostly extinct. People make use of robot dogs for companionship now. An experiment caused dogs to become hyperintelligent and aggressive so people couldn't keep them anymore. The last existing dogs are being kept on a separate island called Dog Island. They're being protected there and they're stuck in a huge cage. The robot dogs are also being testing among the inhabitants of Dog Island before they're being sold to the masses. The main character, Nano, gets a new robot dog every year and this year is no different. She gets the newest model and calls him Billy after her brother. Brother Billy recently disappeared from the island and Nano has no idea what happened to him. One of Nano's friends, Wolf, is her biggest comfort and their friendship grows into something more to Jack's regret who is the other best friend in this triangle. It wouldn't be an actual story if there weren't any issues. Nano finds out about a nest of living puppies where one puppy wags its tail. At that moment, she knows that she has to protect this one.
This is maybe one of the weirdest books I've ever read. The concept is completely unique. The synopsis is precisely why I wanted to read it since I don't add that many books to my TBR anymore. After reading the summary again, I think there are a couple of plotholes that I hadn't noticed before. This is almost par for the course with such a small book of only 200 pages. I think this is way too short for a well-developed story and that is the case with this one as well. Not a whole lot happened. The first half of the story is a description of Nano's life on the island and how it all flows. The second half is what drove the plot. I don't know what to think of this book. I didn't think it was great, but it's also not like I didn't have while reading it. I thought the ending of the book was bizarrely violent and the dark turn it took shocked me. I didn't see any of that coming when I started reading, but the book has some cult happenings going on (if that gives you an indication of how dark this book is). It felt very sudden for me and the 'villain' wasn't very well-developed. She could have gotten more motivation and intention behind her actions. No one is fully good or bad and I think I would have liked to see a little more good so I could better understand why people would want to follow her.
This is maybe one of the weirdest books I've ever read. The concept is completely unique. The synopsis is precisely why I wanted to read it since I don't add that many books to my TBR anymore. After reading the summary again, I think there are a couple of plotholes that I hadn't noticed before. This is almost par for the course with such a small book of only 200 pages. I think this is way too short for a well-developed story and that is the case with this one as well. Not a whole lot happened. The first half of the story is a description of Nano's life on the island and how it all flows. The second half is what drove the plot. I don't know what to think of this book. I didn't think it was great, but it's also not like I didn't have while reading it. I thought the ending of the book was bizarrely violent and the dark turn it took shocked me. I didn't see any of that coming when I started reading, but the book has some cult happenings going on (if that gives you an indication of how dark this book is). It felt very sudden for me and the 'villain' wasn't very well-developed. She could have gotten more motivation and intention behind her actions. No one is fully good or bad and I think I would have liked to see a little more good so I could better understand why people would want to follow her.