These books have all engaged with it in different ways:Ībbie wakes up realizing that she’s been in an accident, only to discover that actual Abbie has died and her mad-tech-billionaire husband has reanimated her as a robot with his dead wife’s memories and personality. The sentient AI is appearing in more and more stories, as writers follow, and then leapfrog beyond, the science. So, what happens when the original wakes up and finds an interloper has taken her place? A new daughter, cloned and boosted by AI, joins her parents in their new luxurious life, but this one is fine-tuned to be perfect. Is this too good to be true? (spoiler: yes). She’s in a coma, and hope is draining away, until the family are offered a lifeline in the form of a medical trial and new life in Geneva. Scholastic | 1st April 2022 | AU$17.In my book, The New One, a family with a difficult daughter almost lose her after a hit and run accident. In the future, will we all have our own Henrys? Is AI the future of romance? It might be.

I’d say it’s more aimed at girls due to the nature of the revenge, but it’s a STEM book as well. It’s not a novel I’d probably read twice but I would highly recommend it to any teen or YA readers as an absorbing and brain-provoking read. The twists in it make it impossible to know any of the outcomes, crazy and unlikely as some might be!

While it would be nice to have some solid character development, the novel is ultimately plot and idea driven. If I let myself linger on this novel for too long I start questioning the potential loopholes and missing connections. Who calls the cops on their own child like that without making an effort to work out their kid’s thinking? Man, her mom is a complete nutter! Sure, she has some unresolved grief/anger, but at the same time, her mom is a bit of an idiot about the whole thing. Although I’m not a code writer, I know how much work can go into a project that could fail at any moment! I particularly liked the ending, although it perhaps created more problems than it solved. Fast paced, edgy and futuristic while still being believable. Henry seems to be the perfect compliment that she needs to right her life again – but is what he is becoming more dangerous than sexy? Finally, after three years of work she’s ready to bring Henry to life. Lydia builds her worries and fears into lines of code every night while her mother works herself to death.

Every line of you by naomi gibson