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A review by sandraagee
A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga
4.0
This was a really interesting read. Based loosely on the real Mars rover Perseverance, Jasmine Warga tells a story largely from the perspective of the rover describing what it might do, think, and even feel over the course of its mission.
This book is a Pixar movie waiting to happen.
Our rover in this story, Resilience, has a lot of feelings for a robot. The other rovers, satellites, and other electronics that Resilience interacts with often comment on how unusual this is, some even advising it to dispose of those feelings so that it can be a better rover. Of course, the rover who wrestles with his emotions because he doesn't know what to do with them is an infinitely more compelling story, and I definitely enjoyed myself more once I let the unrealistic nature of the emotions thing go. It's really the emotions that make this story, both those of Resilience and the human girl Sophie, whose mother is on the team who builds and manages the rover and who periodically writes letters to it as a way of trying to process her feelings.
This book is a Pixar movie waiting to happen.
Our rover in this story, Resilience, has a lot of feelings for a robot. The other rovers, satellites, and other electronics that Resilience interacts with often comment on how unusual this is, some even advising it to dispose of those feelings so that it can be a better rover. Of course, the rover who wrestles with his emotions because he doesn't know what to do with them is an infinitely more compelling story, and I definitely enjoyed myself more once I let the unrealistic nature of the emotions thing go. It's really the emotions that make this story, both those of Resilience and the human girl Sophie, whose mother is on the team who builds and manages the rover and who periodically writes letters to it as a way of trying to process her feelings.