I received a copy of this work from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book will be highly polarizing, and many will not like the ending. That being said, there is a lot to like here if you can handle the dark dystopian and unforgiving landscape in which the novel is set. Without giving too much away, this is a journey of self-discovery, but one without the guidelines that most intrinsically understand to be inherent to oneself. Overall, not a bad book, but one that can be challenging to digest. 7 out of 10.

I was going to give it 3 stars, but WTF is that ending?? I'm quite disgusted. And puzzled.

If you disregard the ending though, it's kind of a... Cute book for grown up children. Grown up, because there's swearing and violence, and sex (realistic Russian swearing, actually! When does that ever happen?), and yet children, because it's somewhat innocent and naive in its own making.

The main character is an agoraphobic 'mad scientist', you could say (well... lonely, rather), and he creates himself a friend - a robot, called Mizgot. Unfortunately, he disregards this sentient being worse than certain fathers disregard their one year olds and doesn't heed her opinions at all. Which is really dangerous, cause some bad people really want to get their hands on Mizgot. And this is roughly what the story is about. That, and the fact that an untrained robot can sort of turn into a monster.

In the end, the book is boring, the characters are predictable, and although the ending is not - it's unpredictable in a really bad way.

Thanks to the publisher for giving me a copy in exchange to my honest review.