![]() Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners–and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. ![]() Welcome to Finishing School.įourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. Etiquette & Espionage by Gail CarrigerĪ genre-bending thrill ride, this one has everything we love. But no one can be trusted…not even the boy she is falling for who has Oliver’s face.ĥ. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi-Oliver’s exact DNA replica and one of the Similars.Įmma wants nothing to do with the Similars, but she keeps getting pulled deeper and deeper into their clique, uncovering dark truths about the clones and her prestigious school along the way. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and all she can think about is how to get through her junior year without him. Who are these six clones? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? Who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emma couldn’t care less. The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Academy. When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class. But a clone that looks exactly like your dead BFF? That would be truly terrifying. Through courtroom testimony, interviews, and Ana’s memories of Owen, emerges a tale of love, lies, and cruelty–and what it truly means to be human.Ĭlones are both creepy and a little fascinating. When she meets park employee Owen, Ana begins to experience emotions beyond her programming including, for the first time… love.īut the fairytale becomes a nightmare when Ana is accused of murdering Owen, igniting the trial of the century. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species-formerly extinct-roam free.Īna is one of seven Fantasists, beautiful “princesses” engineered to make dreams come true. Welcome to the Kingdom… where ‘Happily Ever After’ isn’t just a promise, but a rule. This story is Disneyland meets I, Robot with a very sinister twist. Now she must uncover secrets about her mysterious past in order to protect Earth’s future. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle between the desires of an evil queen – and a dangerous temptation.Ĭinder is caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal. She’s reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s sudden illness. Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war.Įveryone’s favorite resident cyborg is a perfect example of why we love books with robots!Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier.Ĭrier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. The complex relationship between Automae and the human race makes this a truly revolutionary read.Īfter the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will. Regardless of the tech, and regardless of the book, we know you’re going to enjoy it! ![]() Regardless of how the future looks, we can put our questions to the test by reading some of these great YA books featuring robots, cyborgs, and AI (oh my!). What will our relationships with these technological beings be like? Will humans or robots fall to the other? Might we live in harmony? (We’re reeaaally hoping for harmony). We don’t see them as often as mythological characters like mermaids or the fae, but when we do find them, the stories are top-notch.Īs technology rapidly changes around us, and with Siri & Alexa (Alexa? Read us this list.) being parts of our everyday life, it makes us wonder about the advancements of the future. Books with robots and AI? Sign us the heck up.
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