A review by titusfortner
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez

Did not finish book.

I was looking for a science fiction detective story, this showed up on a list and got decent reviews so I tried it. The narrative voice was interesting and the audiobook narrator gave everyone a 1920s Chicago accent, which was interesting. The world was a little weird, but the robot protagonist who decided to become sentient had a lot of promise. Until a few chapters into the book took a weird turn that made me very suddenly lose all interest in continuing to read it. YMMV.