Alright- I bought this book because it looked very cute and sounded very interesting and I wanted a cute rom com type of book to read around Valentine's Day... and I did read this around Valentine's Day and I'm just getting to review it now thanks to Social Distancing lol. Expect something a little more daily here for the most part!
Anyway this book is about a scientist named Kelly who is working on a companion robot at a highly competitive robotics company in Silicon Valley. On top of her boss stressing her out about getting this project done, her mom is pressuring her to find a date for her little sister's wedding. After one bad set up from her mom and no matches on a dating website, Kelly lies to her mom and says she met someone named Ethan- and later sneaks into her office and builds herself a robotic Ethan to take to the wedding.
Ethan is the sweetest robot boyfriend a girl could have. He is programmed that way of corse, but still he is very human and actually becomes more and more human the more he interacts with Kelly and others. He is learning the longer he is alive. And that combined with the fact that Ethan is basically built to adore Kelly and everything that she does... Kelly really does start to fall for him.
And although this book is very cute overall and does have a very happy ending... it does get kind of dark in the middle. Kelly is lying to everyone because she can't have anyone she works with know that she stole parts to use to make her boyfriend. She doesn't want to disappoint her family, she has a hard time answering anyone's questions about him and keeping her story straight, she's avoiding her best friend in the fear that she finds out about Ethan. It just gets incredibly messy and while there are some really nice moments showing Kelly falling in love... it really shows a lot of the difficult times of her life too. Kelly is a very human character and makes very human choices and mistakes involving this whole thing. The dramatic parts are still very fun to read too and for the most part they're actually pretty funny too. I'm not saying this to be like "WARNING THIS BOOK IS SAD" because it isn't... I just really like the emotion that plays out through the book.
There was one scene very early on in the book that was a perfect "awkward family dinner" scene that just kind of set up the book really well. You could really see who all the characters were and why Kelly was the way that she was because of everyone else. Her mom romanticized everything, her dad was the COMPLETE opposite... and her siblings were not crazy but they were both married or getting married... so you could see that the mom was more proud of them than she was of Kelly- even though Kelly had the most accomplished career. It gave a lot more details just in that one scene than you get in some characters throughout the whole book.
The ending of this was SO GREAT too. It brought everything together full circle. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars- just a really perfect book overall. Definitely recommend you guys read it!
Bye!
-Shannon
Anyway this book is about a scientist named Kelly who is working on a companion robot at a highly competitive robotics company in Silicon Valley. On top of her boss stressing her out about getting this project done, her mom is pressuring her to find a date for her little sister's wedding. After one bad set up from her mom and no matches on a dating website, Kelly lies to her mom and says she met someone named Ethan- and later sneaks into her office and builds herself a robotic Ethan to take to the wedding.
Ethan is the sweetest robot boyfriend a girl could have. He is programmed that way of corse, but still he is very human and actually becomes more and more human the more he interacts with Kelly and others. He is learning the longer he is alive. And that combined with the fact that Ethan is basically built to adore Kelly and everything that she does... Kelly really does start to fall for him.
And although this book is very cute overall and does have a very happy ending... it does get kind of dark in the middle. Kelly is lying to everyone because she can't have anyone she works with know that she stole parts to use to make her boyfriend. She doesn't want to disappoint her family, she has a hard time answering anyone's questions about him and keeping her story straight, she's avoiding her best friend in the fear that she finds out about Ethan. It just gets incredibly messy and while there are some really nice moments showing Kelly falling in love... it really shows a lot of the difficult times of her life too. Kelly is a very human character and makes very human choices and mistakes involving this whole thing. The dramatic parts are still very fun to read too and for the most part they're actually pretty funny too. I'm not saying this to be like "WARNING THIS BOOK IS SAD" because it isn't... I just really like the emotion that plays out through the book.
There was one scene very early on in the book that was a perfect "awkward family dinner" scene that just kind of set up the book really well. You could really see who all the characters were and why Kelly was the way that she was because of everyone else. Her mom romanticized everything, her dad was the COMPLETE opposite... and her siblings were not crazy but they were both married or getting married... so you could see that the mom was more proud of them than she was of Kelly- even though Kelly had the most accomplished career. It gave a lot more details just in that one scene than you get in some characters throughout the whole book.
The ending of this was SO GREAT too. It brought everything together full circle. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars- just a really perfect book overall. Definitely recommend you guys read it!
Bye!
-Shannon
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