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Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
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Publisher's summary

"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." — Esquire

"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." — New Scientist

For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard.

She’s learning, too.

Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?

©2024 Sierra Greer (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Editorial Review

Not your average AI
It would be tempting to think this is a story you’ve heard before: a robot created solely for human subservience and sexual gratification wrestles with the complexities of free will and personhood. But you’d be missing out on one heck of a story—because Sierra Greer’s version manages a fresh, unexpected take on AI and all the hopes and fears we ascribe to it. What results is a highly plausible vision of what our eventual coexistence may look like. The very intelligent yet painfully naive Annie is not like any AI character I’ve encountered before—she’s messier, more adrift. Jennifer Jill Araya did her homework for this performance: Her subtle shifts in cadence between types of bots, as well as capturing the range of human affects we don throughout our day, added such dimension to this story. —Sam D., Audible Editor

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I couldn’t put it down!!!

What a fantastic book- it really makes you think about what makes us human, whose feelings are valid and what free agency is. It may be too soon to hope for this….. but I really hope there is a sequel.
I will also say that this made me think a little of the Barbie movie and how this is a much darker and explicit take on that. You’ll car h yourself humming “what was I made for” as you read.

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Lots of surprises in a well trod genre

I love explorations of A.I. and what sets us apart as human. There are certainly echoes of Her, AI the movie, I, Robot, etc. in Annie Bot. But with a feminist lens in today's America, the novel feels fresh and relevant. i also appreciated the nuance in characters and their development over time; this is not a moralistic novel where the bad guys are always horrible. It's much more interesting this way.

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Good, but not great

What a fun adventure into the inner thoughts & mind of a robot. The premise and first 50ish% of this book were great, but then it just felt like it lost its way. There could have been so many more things added to this storyline to make it great, but sadly it fell short and just trudged along to the end.

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Wonderful..

Poignant and relevant tale about freedom, love, and what it means to be human.
A little bit sci fi some fantasy but mostly good fiction. An easy and believable read.. ethics, ownership, autonomy? How do those all fit in to being a " bot"?
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this book.

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Romance

I am not sure what to say about Annie Bot. There are so thoughts surrounding this story. Ethical questions, how and why, so many feelings too. This was a very strange story for me.

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Incredible

Fascinating, entertaining, thought-provoking, amazing. I became so attached to Annie’s character; I was rooting for her the whole way.

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Fantastic- makes you think

Annie Bot was extremely well written, and thought provoking! It was fun to watch how Annie‘s character grew. 

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Autodidactic Annit

I really like the story line. It makes you forget Annie is AI and not human. That's the hardest thing to grasp.

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I enjoyed listening to this but it is not my favorite

This book is really cute on a level, but I think I could’ve like gone without the eroticism and stuck to a more detailed storyline.
There’s something ridiculously good about thinking you can make a robot be almost like a human I mean we’ve been doing these movies for years and books for years I think they just got a little bit away from her in the sex scenes. How do you know it’s cute

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Great read!

Exciting storyline about a robot made to be someones “cuddlebunny”. I loved the narration! Kept me interested!

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