Annie Bot

Annie is a bot designed to be the perfect girlfriend. Her entire existence is based on making her owner Doug happy both physically and emotionally. As Annie learns to act more human things become confusing and what makes Doug, and her, happy becomes difficult to figure out.

The narrator for this book was fantastic. She did well on both male and female voices. A majority of the characters were bots design to be very human and she really nailed this concept. Voices did not come off robotic yet still had that inflection of not quite human.

I don’t think any book has made me feel more frustrated and stressed the way this one did. To be clear, this turn out to be a good thing. The story is told entirely from Annie’s perspective. Knowing she is a bot did not help lessen the frustration I felt watching her continue to stay in an extremely toxic relationship. It was fascinating to know she is literally programmed to only care about making her owner Doug happy even though he is just the worst.

I really liked Annie as a character even with these difficulties along the way. It was interesting watching her learn more and more about what it means to be human. Her journey navigating all the contradictions in her was difficult to witness at times. I admit the further I got in the story the lower my opinion got about the book overall. Things were going in a direction I absolutely did not want to see.

The end of the book however caused me to cheer internally and it ended exactly how I hoped it would. This is definitely a story that will make you uncomfortable and you probably won’t like for a while, but it’s important to stick with the protagonist through all her mistakes and trials. Worth all the suffering in the end.

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