Nell Crane has always been an outsider. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts, her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs everyone now uses. But how can Nell live up to her father's revolutionary idea when she has none of her own.

“This was why she had to build a companion, build a boy with an electric voice, so she’d have someone to confide in when the people around her were too much for her to handle. Too flawed. Too human.”

 I have to admit the blurb and the red end pages drove me to pick this up and although i did enjoy it, i just feel that there was something missing in this book.

I quite liked Nell as a character, she seemed okay, slightly boring and a little bit 1 dimensional. I thought she became better throughout the book. The other characters were also okay, i felt they were just there to move the story along and I couldn't picture the genuine relationships they were trying to portray with Nell.

The storyline was nice and different, and I enjoyed it, but I do wish there was more background story of the epidemic that happened to kill the city and banish technology. I think thats where it fell for me because I was left feeling a little confused on why everything was banned apart from 'it killed everything' and i wanted to know how.

I also thought that the pace of this book was off, it went from being so slow and a little boring to nearly everything happening at once and being over with the blink of an eye. This pace would have been better if little incidents happened throughout the book and there was also more world building at the start.

Emma x