beammey's review
5.0
This was easily my favorite serial yet. Oh my goodness Arcadia is amazing. I didn't think I would feel for an AI, but I definitely did. What a well written and thought out chapter and that ending! It was nice to see the characters from a different point of view and to meet someone new as well. This series just keeps getting better and better. Bring on the next!
urlphantomhive's review
3.0
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Only three episodes from the end, ReMade is offering us just what we needed: yet another POV. Maybe it is just maybe but I feel like I wasn't waiting for a sentient city (and also it feels like I've read a lot of books recently with AIs as characters).
While Arcadia adds to the story and at this point is more interesting than the humans, who are just about going their own way, I still don't know where the story is going. It is clear that Arcadia herself has lost control over the Caretakers. Other questions also remain, the most pressing ones for me: who will they be battling in the end, and why are they resurrected?
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
Only three episodes from the end, ReMade is offering us just what we needed: yet another POV. Maybe it is just maybe but I feel like I wasn't waiting for a sentient city (and also it feels like I've read a lot of books recently with AIs as characters).
While Arcadia adds to the story and at this point is more interesting than the humans, who are just about going their own way, I still don't know where the story is going. It is clear that Arcadia herself has lost control over the Caretakers. Other questions also remain, the most pressing ones for me: who will they be battling in the end, and why are they resurrected?
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
diamondxgirl's review
5.0
I began this episode with a lot of feelings. Worry. Hope. Anxiety. Curiosity. I think author Andrea Phillips may have shared some of those.
I'm going to try my best not to spoil too much in this review but no promises as there wasn't a second wasted in this episode, so there isn't much an opportunity to talk around stuff.
Arcadia. An unspoiled, harmonious wilderness. Certainly our ReMades think so at this point. Arcadia is so much more than a refuge. Arcadia is an artificial intelligence.
Record search: null. Data corrupt. This memory has been reconstructed from recovered fragments, but may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Alone for a significant amount of time (as witnessed by Cole in the previous episode), Arcadia is thrilled to have the city alive with people (?) again. Unbeknownst to our ReMades, Arcadia is assisting in keeping the ReMades fed, warm, and safe. That's right, it's keeping the caregivers at bay - and we learn why some are helpful and others are just...well, hell.
Memories of Arcadia is one of those episodes that makes you want to go back through all of the others and look for clues. The audience now has information that the characters do not - dramatic irony - and I was biting my nails with worry the whole time.
History is interpretable when the facts are questionable. We know Arcadia is missing pieces of itself (is this why we get coffee that tastes like hot orange juice and ass?) so is it only a matter of time before things get ugly? Two episodes in this season and it's never felt more dangerous.
I'm going to try my best not to spoil too much in this review but no promises as there wasn't a second wasted in this episode, so there isn't much an opportunity to talk around stuff.
Arcadia. An unspoiled, harmonious wilderness. Certainly our ReMades think so at this point. Arcadia is so much more than a refuge. Arcadia is an artificial intelligence.
Record search: null. Data corrupt. This memory has been reconstructed from recovered fragments, but may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Alone for a significant amount of time (as witnessed by Cole in the previous episode), Arcadia is thrilled to have the city alive with people (?) again. Unbeknownst to our ReMades, Arcadia is assisting in keeping the ReMades fed, warm, and safe. That's right, it's keeping the caregivers at bay - and we learn why some are helpful and others are just...well, hell.
Memories of Arcadia is one of those episodes that makes you want to go back through all of the others and look for clues. The audience now has information that the characters do not - dramatic irony - and I was biting my nails with worry the whole time.
History is interpretable when the facts are questionable. We know Arcadia is missing pieces of itself (is this why we get coffee that tastes like hot orange juice and ass?) so is it only a matter of time before things get ugly? Two episodes in this season and it's never felt more dangerous.
pantsreads's review
4.0
I feel for Arcadia, but I kind of love that she's a bit crazy.
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