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A review by jessicafee86
The Marvelous Mechanical Man by Rie Sheridan Rose
3.0
A fun read about a disheveled (yet handsome) professor and his clumsy (yet smart) female assistant who create a robot with artificial intelligence that gets stolen by a rival professor. There were a lot of things that I really enjoyed about this book and a lot of things that I didn't. Overall I read the whole thing and it was the perfect palate cleanser for all the dark books I've been reading, like I said earlier it's a lot of fun, but that's about it. Not a whole lot of substance and basically 0 thinking needed to read this one.
Pros:
This book is a really short, easy read. It's the junk food of it's genre, incredibly predictable but in a fun Nancy Drew meets Clive Cussler sort of way. You knows what going to happen but the details are fuzzy enough that you keep reading.
Phaeton was by far my favorite part of this whole story. Phaeton is the robot who's created by Professor Alistair and doesn't really become a character until about the middle of the book. I don't know exactly what it was that got me hooked on his character but he's the reason I kept reading.
If you're looking for a quirky romance without the raunchiness, sex or swearing that's so common now, this book is perfect. If it were a movie it might get a PG rating, but would lean heavily towards a simple G rating.
Cons:
The novel tried really hard to imitate a classic dime store detective novel and had no problems letting you know it... over and over and over again. It really started to take me out of the story.
"He would never survive in one of in one of the dime novels..."
"It often turned out that way in the dime novels..."
"He sounds just like one of your dime novels..."
Annoyance number 2 was the weird western thrown in this story that had nothing to do with anything. A girl named Calico Kate whose best friend is a horse named Pecos is upset when a bad man decides that he's going to steal away her Pa's farm. At the end of almost every chapter there was an additional page of Calico Kate's story but it never connected to the main one. It's like the author wanted to write a short story, but didn't know what to do with it, so she just shoved random pages of it through out the book.
Pros:
This book is a really short, easy read. It's the junk food of it's genre, incredibly predictable but in a fun Nancy Drew meets Clive Cussler sort of way. You knows what going to happen but the details are fuzzy enough that you keep reading.
Phaeton was by far my favorite part of this whole story. Phaeton is the robot who's created by Professor Alistair and doesn't really become a character until about the middle of the book. I don't know exactly what it was that got me hooked on his character but he's the reason I kept reading.
If you're looking for a quirky romance without the raunchiness, sex or swearing that's so common now, this book is perfect. If it were a movie it might get a PG rating, but would lean heavily towards a simple G rating.
Cons:
The novel tried really hard to imitate a classic dime store detective novel and had no problems letting you know it... over and over and over again. It really started to take me out of the story.
"He would never survive in one of in one of the dime novels..."
"It often turned out that way in the dime novels..."
"He sounds just like one of your dime novels..."
Annoyance number 2 was the weird western thrown in this story that had nothing to do with anything. A girl named Calico Kate whose best friend is a horse named Pecos is upset when a bad man decides that he's going to steal away her Pa's farm. At the end of almost every chapter there was an additional page of Calico Kate's story but it never connected to the main one. It's like the author wanted to write a short story, but didn't know what to do with it, so she just shoved random pages of it through out the book.