Saturday, December 14, 2019

MILA 2.0: Redemption

In the final Mila 2.0 book, Debra Driza seems to have reached her word count mid-story and abruptly ended the book. I felt I must have been missing something when the tides rapidly turned and the book came to a conclusion. Through most of the book, Mila is becoming more and more human. However, she returns back to her android self to "save" herself. You just want to inject some sense in her. She gets stuck in some bizarre love triangle. She still has attachment to her old boyfriend (who totally freaked when she fessed to be being android and killing a relative.) The boy who is helping her obviously has affection, but she tries to deny it. She gradually gets back more memories from her "human" self. The evil military man is just too evil. He is "bad guy" cast from central casting. He is trying to sell mind-controlled teenage warriors to foreign governments. Somehow people continue to follow him through the most harebrained of ideas. Even an elite private school manages to be an inadvertent participant in his scheme. Mila seems to get lucky break after lucky break. Things get just bad enough to keep the action going. The book has some things going for it, yet the flaws are difficult to overcome.

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