Recent Reads: Interview with the Robot by Lee Bacon

Interview with the Robot by Lee Bacon
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, Eileen Stevens, Erin Mallon, Jonathan Davis, Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher: Audible Original
Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Science Fiction & Fantasy

 

Format: Audible Audiobook
Source: Audible Subscriber Freebie 

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

Fugitive. Criminal. Robot.
Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down.
And most astonishing of all: She’s a robot, a product of Eden Labratories.
When she discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.
After being arrested for shoplifting, Eve is interviewed by Petra Amis from Child Welfare Services. Her incredible story unfolds during the interrogation, with flashbacks to her life inside Eden Laboratories, which has a dark secret.
Exploring a range of topics that drive our society and our lives - topics such as artificial intelligence and human nature - Interview with the Robot is a story told by a startlingly original protagonist, a story that explores the vast potential of technology and the deep complexities of humanity

Review: 
This was such a fun book. It follows Eve as she talks to a Child Welfare Services Social Worker about her life, the twist - she is a robot. Eve started out as a box and is now a fully formed, almost human robot girl who looks like she is 12. She was built in a lab by a man named David, who is working to make better humans. 

This story is told in a few ways, Eve as she converses with Petra as well as flashback scenes into her life at the lab and then escaping the lab. There is a full cast of narrators for the audiobook and they all do a great job. 

There was a lot of mystery and suspense throughout this audiobook and I really enjoyed the story. There is a huge twist at the end that really threw me and I was very surprised by it.  I don't want to give more away so I will leave it at that.

As an Audbile Freebie for Middle Grade readers, this book is fairly short, which is nice. It is also packed with emotion, mystery, suspense, and drama and I think parents and young readers will really enjoy it.