A review by leonalikesliterature
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I became absorbed by this book and it shook me to my core. As someone who’s had a shitty abusive ex-boyfriend, I found myself resonating with sentient enslaved sex robot, Annie, and I immediately began rooting for her. Honestly, it was almost triggering at times and the book felt so incredibly personal. Annie Bot was both a written lived experience of what it means to date men as a woman but also a warning of how much worse it can get. Sierra Greer did a phenomenal job of creating characters in a near distant world that felt so incredibly life-like down to the smallest of details. So many men like Doug exist. He was so so awful and so so real. If AI robot girlfriends ever become a reality, so many human-robot couples like Doug and Annie would exist and you could argue they already do.