Wow, I could not put this book down. JP Delaney has a knack for crafting twists and turns that you never see coming--and I say this as someone who reads a ton of suspense/thriller books and can almost always figure out what's going to happen. I had the same experience with his last book, but this one is even better.

The plot centers around a Silicon Valley mogul whose boho artist wife disappears, so he engineers a robot with her consciousness. (I kept wondering if Delaney had based any of this on Elon Musk and Grimes' recent relationship, because the character types seemed eerily similar.) The robot (or "cobot," I should say) has feelings and acts just as the missing woman does. The novel is written in second person, from her perspective. It's rare that a book is written that way, and in Delaney's last book I didn't so much like the experimental, screenplay-style scenes, but in this case the unconventional technique works really well.

The pacing is great and as I said before, I had no idea how this was going to end until it did. There was one reveal in the last few chapters that had me gasping because it was so perfect and unexpected. The other thing I loved was that this is an explicitly feminist book; there's a lot to unpack about the tech world and the way it treats women. The book also deals with the subject of autism in a sensitive, truthful way. (Delaney says in the afterward that his son is autistic, and that really comes through in the writing when he talks about the main character's son.)

Anyway, be sure to pick this one up. It's a thought-provoking, suspenseful ride, and the questions the story raises about the ethics of AI, the toxic misogyny of Silicon Valley, and the way society treats those with neurodevelopmental disorders will stay with you long after you've finished reading.

What would you do if someone told you you could live forever? Would you do anything? Become anything? Abbie awakens with no memory of the last five years. Her husband, the owner of a highly successful robotics company tells her she was in a terrible accident five years before, and it’s only as a result in his company’s research that she has been able to “come back” to her husband and son. Delaney raises some provocative questions about AI and how it might be used in the future, or if it should be used at all. This book is so original, so thought provoking and so unsettling; it really made me question what I might do to keep a loved one with me.