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A review by choirqueer
So You Want to be a Robot and Other Stories by A. Merc Rustad
5.0
This book was REALLY REALLY GOOD and also REALLY REALLY messed with my head. Based on the title and the first story, I was ready for a book of stories that would be really good and also make me feel...happy. This, in fact, was a book of stories which were extremely good and also made me feel...like curling up in a ball and hiding under the bed forever. Get ready to feel every possible emotion and then a few impossible ones, and then to realize maybe you actually are a robot after all when all your circuits overload.
Overall I absolutely loved this, I came away feeling like I dearly would love to be friends with the author, and I'd love to read anything else they ever write (even if I need to cry for a week after reading it).
There was a lot of very heavy content in here and I didn't make notes on everything to warn for, but some content warnings include: graphic physical and psychological violence, child abuse, intimate partner abuse, transantagonism (in the context of characters who are villains displaying transantagonistic behavior to show how bad/evil they are), suicidality, one story where a dog dies, and one where sexual violence is described but does not actually occur.
Overall I absolutely loved this, I came away feeling like I dearly would love to be friends with the author, and I'd love to read anything else they ever write (even if I need to cry for a week after reading it).
There was a lot of very heavy content in here and I didn't make notes on everything to warn for, but some content warnings include: graphic physical and psychological violence, child abuse, intimate partner abuse, transantagonism (in the context of characters who are villains displaying transantagonistic behavior to show how bad/evil they are), suicidality, one story where a dog dies, and one where sexual violence is described but does not actually occur.