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Alpha Bots is a take on The Stepford Wives with a robot-powered feminist uprising front and center. It's fast-paced, funny, satirical, and absurd, with some campy horror thrown in (some parts are downright gruesome). Other readers have said this is Stepford Wives meets Fight Club meets Truman Show, and I think that's pretty spot-on. These AI women represent the desires of bottom-of-the-barrel cishet men, from expectations of submissiveness to racial fetishism, but will they be able to push beyond their programming?
The satire gets dark, and this is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. It's not for the faint of heart, for sure. I feel like this book caught me when I was in just the right mood for it. I'm not sure I completely followed the plot, but it was an entertaining ride!
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- 31 August, 2020: Finished reading
- 31 August, 2020: Reviewed