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vN | Madeline Ashby
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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.
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dylanisreading
vN | Madeline Ashby
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I've got the sniffles so I'm nesting on the couch, and I was able to finish this. It's fun, pretty fast-paced, and brings up some fascinating concepts. It's a quick read, but the epilogue could've been shorter and less explain-y imo. Also, there was some stereotypical characterization of some of the characters of color that made me uncomfortable. Though I enjoyed this overall, I won't be continuing with the series.

Slump officially busted!

BookBr Always a great feeling😊 2y
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dylanisreading
vN | Madeline Ashby
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Finally got sucked into a book last night. Robot sci-fi. Fingers crossed my reading slump is busted. 🤞

DivineDiana 🤞🏻 📚🤞🏻 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Fingers crossed 🤞 2y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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My local indie bookstore is doing #bookstoresagainstborders so actually I had to go buy stuff.

jchawkins Mine too! ♥️ 5y
Clare-Dragonfly Huh. Turns out I already have this book for Kindle. Not sure if I should return it... 5y
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swynn
vN | Madeline Ashby
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Robot girl eats her killer robot grandma then goes on the run with a new robot friend and his robot newborn. Heck yes I liked it. Looking forward to the sequel.

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