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A review by yolandie_horak
I Heart Robot by Suzanne van Rooyen
5.0
Fair warning, I Heart Robot's first page has hooks that will sink deep and won't let you go. This book pretty much blew my mind and I can't recommend it enough.
The setting is in a future Scandinavia, in an age where robots have become a daily necessity. Some of these robots have been developed to understand emotions and even have emotions of their own, so it makes sense that we're brought into this story at the start of a revolution. The robots want rights, because they're so human. The humans won't give the robots rights, because they're not human enough. Chaos ensues.
In the heart of the turmoil, we meet Tyri and Quinn, teenagers with a love for music. Tyri wants to prove to her mom that she can build a life in music, and that she's really good at playing the violin. Quinn wants to prove to the world that droids can create music too, that he's alive. Meeting each other complicates this a little - who needs a stranger that releases the butterflies in your stomach when you're trying to conquer the world through music, right?
Romance, friendships, brilliant plot twists and political turmoil make for a just-one-more-chapter kind of novel. It's difficult to stop reading this one and it leaves you awed and satisfied at the end.
The setting is in a future Scandinavia, in an age where robots have become a daily necessity. Some of these robots have been developed to understand emotions and even have emotions of their own, so it makes sense that we're brought into this story at the start of a revolution. The robots want rights, because they're so human. The humans won't give the robots rights, because they're not human enough. Chaos ensues.
In the heart of the turmoil, we meet Tyri and Quinn, teenagers with a love for music. Tyri wants to prove to her mom that she can build a life in music, and that she's really good at playing the violin. Quinn wants to prove to the world that droids can create music too, that he's alive. Meeting each other complicates this a little - who needs a stranger that releases the butterflies in your stomach when you're trying to conquer the world through music, right?
Romance, friendships, brilliant plot twists and political turmoil make for a just-one-more-chapter kind of novel. It's difficult to stop reading this one and it leaves you awed and satisfied at the end.