It is not enough, these days, to stick a robot into a story, even a cute robot like Artie, and think that will be enough to carry the story. Even adding a vulture, Owen, can't save this story.

The story is that Artie is supposed to be doing "something" but he doesn't know what, and so he goes out to seek the answer of life, the universe and everything. Along the way he meets other robots who are cutting down trees and destroying the forest, which is, of course, bad.

He goes to the city, and meets other robots. Oh, and he loses Owen, at some point, and finds him again.

Perhaps kids will love the robots. It was a little heavy handed for me, that friendship is most important thing in life.



Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.