Author - Madeline Ashby
Standalone or Series - The Machine Dynasty #1
Genre - Sci Fi
Publication July 31st 2012
Rating 4 out of 5
Synopsis
Amy Peterson is a von
Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.
For the past five years,
she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She
knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother
arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
Now she carries her
malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she’s learning
impossible things about her clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe
that stops all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that everyone
wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.
Review
I received this book in
return for a honest review from Netgalley from the publisher Angry Robot. The
book is the story of Amy a vN short for von Neumann the creator of her clade
(generation) of android. Amy lives with her father a human and her mother a vN
just like her. Most vN are full grown within a year based on how they eat
however Amy’s parents decided to let her grow like a human girl, so she’s
starved in essence so she doesn’t grow quickly. Amy knows very little about her
mother’s past, because it’s not something her mother wants to talk about. At her
kindergarten graduation everything changed, her grandmother kills a little boy
and attacks her mother. Amy attacks her grandmother in hopes of saving her
mother she bites her, which causes the starving Amy to eat all of her
grandmother, leaving her with her grandmother inside her.
After eating her
grandmother she arrested, when she wakes up she learns that she’s no longer five
but fully grown and very confused. She’s rescued by Javier a fellow vN together
the pair escapes into the forest on a journey to find Rory in hopes that she
can help Amy. Amy isn’t a typical vN her failsafe has failed, causing her to be
able to harm people so all kinds of bounty hunters including police are
searching for her as well as her escaped friend. The pair is directed by
another vN to look for Rory who will help her. Along the way Javier has his 13th
offspring who he calls Junior, which is a new experience for Amy. Amy is unlike
other vN’s because she has emotions, not just a plug in she laughs, cries and
loves.
I enjoyed the book, I
always had a fondness to sci fi my mother had a passion for sci fi movies and
books. The book reminds me a lot of Bladerunner which is a movie I have fond
memories of. I loved Amy she’s so innocent even though she is plagued by her
evil grandmother who can take control of her body when she needs too. It's a great fast paced book that is full of action but still has some emotional aspects as well. I found
the storyline entertaining it drew me in right from the start, and I had a hard
time putting it down. I had to know what would happen next in Amy and Javier adventure. I
can’t wait for the next book. If you like android sci fi books I highly recommend it.
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