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A review by literallykalasin
The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
4.0
This book, in tone and feel, reminded me of "The Time Traveler's Wife." Like that book, Cat meets the love of her life, Finn, when she is a very young girl. Her scientist father brings home Finn to live with the family and act as her tutor. There is something not quite right about Finn however, a quality that causes Cat to think he is a ghost. Finn is unchanging, but not because he's a ghost. As Cat grows, she realises that Finn is an android; he cannot feel and yet Finn is her best friend. He cannot feel and yet she falls in love with him.
The book is essentially an extended push and pull against a changing definition of humanity as the robots and androids become more sentient in a dystopian world with a decimated population that utilises them to fill the gaps in the labour market. It is also Cat trying to be normal and fighting her feelings for someone who is incapable of returning them. Cat makes some terrible, compromising decisions in the name of normalcy.
This is a book that sticks with you. Even though it is essentially a story of frustrated love set on the backdrop of a future Earth, it also leaves you thinking about what it means to be human and the nature of settling.
The book is essentially an extended push and pull against a changing definition of humanity as the robots and androids become more sentient in a dystopian world with a decimated population that utilises them to fill the gaps in the labour market. It is also Cat trying to be normal and fighting her feelings for someone who is incapable of returning them. Cat makes some terrible, compromising decisions in the name of normalcy.
This is a book that sticks with you. Even though it is essentially a story of frustrated love set on the backdrop of a future Earth, it also leaves you thinking about what it means to be human and the nature of settling.