I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

Well. This sounded better than it actually was. Maybe I am just not awake enough for this one, or maybe my mind just isn't in the right setting for this, but I can tell you I was utterly bored for almost all of the 146 pages. There were a few parts that had me laughing, and 1 part that had me surprised (Owen). But that was all.

The first 3 pages were pretty nice, and I was looking forward to the rest. Now I wish I just had stopped at those 3 pages.

I also still have no clue what I read. So our robot is now searching for a purpose? Wandering around? Making friends on the way? Something like that I guess? Then we also have a bad guy or 2 popping up at random intervals.

I am guessing this world is without humans, given all we have seen I guess one day there were humans. I am curious as to what happened to them. Did the robots take over? Or did the humans just meet their end in a less than drastic way? Eh?

Artie and Owen were pretty good characters, and I quite liked their friendship. They really went through fire for each other. They were also what kept me reading. I wanted to see if they both survived this journey.

The art was pretty OK, it did fit the story perfectly.

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.