I really loved this book!! The main story is about two robots figuring out their feelings and fall in love. What really surprised me, though, is how good and believable the robots’ perspective is. Their thoughts are hilarious at times, but also shockingly human. Along with the sweet romance and dystopian sci-fi, the book touches on questions about what it even means to be conscious, alive, or approaching death. The “capacity” to think is put into a new perspective, with so many parallels to humans. I can definitely recommend it! 🙂

My favorite type of scifi story is the type where I really care. I like the technical chatter and the worldbuilding and the futuristic visual descriptions but the core of me loving any scifi story is usually around the characters and if I connect to them or not.

The Warm Machine falls very solidly into my “Scifi with a Heart” category along side stories like Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” and Martha Wells’ “Murderbot Diaries.” I liked getting to know these bots and became alarmingly attached to them with haste. I think I was probably about 20 pages into the book before I felt completely invested.

There were some formatting issue that can probably be fixed in a future publication but they didn’t really detract from the story. I did have a few solid laughs (out loud, in public – save me) and I got a little teary eyed at least once. Definitely happy to have picked this up!

this book was incredible! i can’t tell you the last time i read a sci-fi book, but i genuinely couldn’t put this down (except to gush to my wife about how much i was enjoying it!) read it! you’ll love it!

“I do not want to look like them. They may be our creators, in a manufacturing sense only, but we are our own creators of our sentience and anomalous path. They have created me with no desire to look like them, and I do not want to be created in their image either. I am a machine, and I have no desire to wear a false mask of humanity. Despite their best efforts to the contrary, bots will outlive humanity to its last. We are the next evolution of superior forms, and to downgrade ourselves to impressions of our makers is to adopt a Pinocchio complex: it assumes bots desire humanity above all else as the premier, optimal form.”

this is one of two books i’ve finished in years, i could not put it down! ty for that aimee cozza :’) missed reading so much

as another reviewer said, i didn’t realize gay robot romance was for me, but it was. this is so much more than that.

beautifully wrote! i’m not sure if this is the authors first novel, if so, (if not as well) i am so impressed with the world building, and fully “fleshed-out” (lol) characters full of so much ~ life ~

i was filled to the brim with anxiety in certain parts, and QUERIES. one of my fav parts of the book — the innocence in every time that was said, “I have queries.” i wish humans were so straight forward.) there was a point i went to the kitchen to grab something, and came back and pressed ‘play’ on the remote to resume the … book…. my brain seemed to believe i was watching a movie, which shows how engrossing this was, and sometimes heart-wrenching.

what is a soul?

i was introduced to this author through my job running a crowdfunding ‘booktopia’ campaign, i usually read solely memoirs and nonfiction, but something drew me to this book, and i’m so happy it did.

Could not put this down! If you want a thoughtful and captivating exploration into what happens when ‘bots start thinking outside their boxes, catching feels, and contemplating sentience, while trying to keep safe from humans who don’t want them to exist – well, Aimee’s got the goods right here. And I would like to note this cover and the writing are completely human-made. Calling this the work of AI is not only erroneous, it’s insulting. Only bots here are the ones in the story.