this was really unique read I liked the scifi elements and the way the author writes. I thought it was a fun read and enjoyed reading this.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was a peculiar sci fi romance novel about a woman who buys a new house with a built in full service AI and ends up falling in love with him. It such a bizarre story because although he speaks he's physically just a moving arm that does things at her command. She's kind to him and they develop an easy friendship but it was too far fetched to be fully believed.

Well....hmmmm....um.....first I was like hey this is interesting....then I was like what the hell did I just read, should I stop....its like a car crash I can't help myself. And then it just crashed and burned. The good news it's a very quick read. The bad news the explanation of what is happening has a ton of holes it feels like I missed a first novel to this. When describing events it's like the author expects you to already know why things are happening. I also find the romance between the main character Exe and her two armed AI home help very weird. I mean if you're going to do it make it a whole AI robot or something. The things they did together...*shiver* Why and how did this get published this way? It reads more like a short story then a full on novel. I just can't even.....wow just wow.
Anyway.....i gave it two stars because I actually did finish the book....so I guess that's good.

I’ve been on a strict quality control with my reading selections, so this was an exception. Albeit thoroughly nonexceptional in any way but literal. Just needed a quick something and this one featured AI. Not just any sort of AI, a butler/servant style AI that apparently is all the rage in 2040s. Get it preinstalled and never be alone again or never be lonely again or both. Depends. The book’s protagonist, Exe, is something of a luddite, not a lot of trust in tech based on past trauma, she was raised without, but now on her way to adulthood proper she selects the basic option, only to discover there’s nothing basic about it. Oh no, Exe’s AI is way too sentient and soon develop a biplatform? relationship. Or…I don’t know, how does one talk about this, the official description is fairly oblique, but the title pretty much gives it away, doesn’t it. So going by the description you might except some sort of a serious science fiction thriller, but what you get is a sappily sentimental AI/person romance with some genuinely ..yucky? physical aspects thereof. Let’s just say it’s a love story with vegetables. I mean, the AI here only has two arms, which is to say two arms and brain is all he consists of, so not a lot to play with here. So anyway, yeah, it’s a romance novel. All the actually pretty decent world building and dystopian ideas are, respectively, overpowered and underdeveloped in favor of the cheesy trite romantic subplot. What a shame. There were a bunch of interesting ideas in here, not overly original, more like a mash up of a variety of dystopian concepts, but a decent mash up that would have worked, might have created a more interesting story. Something actually worth reading. Instead of this…cucumber abuse. (Yes, seriously). The author really did warn us with that title, it’s all about lurv, the lurv that surpasses zeros and ones in one’s coding or whatever, so if cheaply sentimental romances with AI are your thing, by all means…otherwise pass. Mainly it’s just good for a quick laugh and you’d be laughing at a book not with it. It does read very quickly at least, plus the final fifth of the book is taken up by a preview. What’s next for the author? Soft AI porn? Don’t know, don’t care. This is going to be deleted from memory banks soon enough. Thanks Netgalley.