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This novel was not what I expected at all. I read ‘The Mad Scientist's Daughter’ by Cassandra Rose Clarke anticipating a regular dystopian Science Fiction novel involving androids, but it was so much more. The tone of the novel was almost dream-like, with an atmospheric and dissociate narrative. You feel like you are floating along with the main character, viewing this world from outside of yourself. It’s like nothing I have ever read before and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

The story is told from the POV of Caterina ‘Cat’ Novak, the daughter of our titular mad scientist. Set is a dystopian future America, her father, Dr Daniel Novak is a preeminent Cyberneticist and the start of the novel he brings home Finn, an android, to live with the family. Cat is only a little girl at the time and as per a normal child’s viewpoint doesn’t quite understand what is happening, thinking of Finn as a ghost.

As the novel unfolds we grow up with Cat, starting as a rather precocious child all the way into her adulthood. Once Cat grows out of her childhood she becomes more and more distant to her true self, allowing herself to be pulled along with what others want of her. Not what she wants for herself. I felt that she lost her own sense of identity. Her only real touch stones were her relationships with her parents and Finn.

Her relationship with Finn was complicated. He started off as a friend and confident whilst he was tutoring her but as she got older that changed into a deep and abiding affection and then love. But Finn is an android and doesn’t have feeling so Cat represses her own feelings and judges herself not to be ‘normal’. I wished there was more written about Finn as I found his scenes to be fascinating.

Cat struggling to accept herself for who she is becomes a major theme throughout the book. She mentions wanting and trying to be ‘normal’ many times throughout the story, it’s at these points that I feel she divorces herself from what she wants and goes along with what others are telling her to do. Most of these choices are not what is best for herself and leads her to become more and more distant to the events of her life.

Cat is a deeply flawed character and one I did have trouble really understanding and connecting with but I found myself pulled along with the story. She made some choices that I am still conflicted about and don’t necessarily agree with. By the end of the novel you do understand how much she has grown throughout the book and is aware that her choices have hurt those who love her. She isn’t perfect but she does grow up and mature.

Overall, this is a captivating novel that focuses on a single person’s story rather than a big ‘let’s fix the world’ saga. The story is often melancholy and emotional with a unique voice on what it is to be human and to love.

4/5 Stars! Original dystopian science fiction with a moody, dream-like narrative!

Note: Vaginal Fantasy February 2018 Alt book


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The Mad Scientist Daughter Cassandra Rose Clarke 9780857662644 Books Reviews

Caterina Novak is the daughter of Daniel Novak, a "mad scientist" who specializes in cybernetics. As a younger girl, Daniel brings home Finn, an android, to tutor his daughter. Through the years, Cat grows to see Finn as less a machine and more of a man. But does Finn love her back? Can he love her? Should she even bother?

Let's just cut to the chase I love this book. I love this book to the depths of my soul. I sped through half of the book and then didn't want to finish, it was so good.

This book really doesn't seem like the type of book that I would love. I mean, I love science fiction, and I love romance, but this book isn't really either. It's post-apocalyptic-science-fiction-romance-character-study-drama. Like Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series, it defies categorizing. Like Gabaldon's series, it isn't just a romantic story, it isn't just about the science-gizmos, it's not just about a terrible thing that happened in the past that made Kansas a desert.

But maybe that's why I love the book so much. Maybe because the book is more than just a girl wanting to hump a guy or a wallpaper science fiction novel is why I want to squeeze and hug and love this book to death.

Maybe I love this book because the characters and situations, while maddeningly frustrating, are so gorram real. Cat is one of the most selfish, unlikable, lazy, unmotivated protagonists I've read in awhile. And yet, I liked her. I know, it's weird, but I could understand a lot of the reasons why she did what she did. I got why she ran off to college. I got her responses to other character's death. I understand why she married who she did. It made sense to me - even as I was yelling at her not to do it.

And all the characters were this way - Finn, Daniel, Richard, Cat's mom, Cat's art friends. They weren't bad, they weren't good, they were PEOPLE. Believable, relatable, realistic people, warts and all.

Or maybe I love this book because at the end of the day, it's more a character study, more about the humanity of the machine and the machinations of humanity than it is about Girl Meets Boy and Wants In His Pants. Is it wrong for Cat to love Finn, to be intimate with him, when he has no feelings? Can machines love? What does it all mean, when you get more feelings from a machine than a human being?

No, this isn't perfect. There are slow spots. There are maddening character decisions. And the book is rather melancholy, right up until the very end. And speaking of the end, gorrammit, why was it so gorram short?! All this time, and we get a couple of pages and BOOM! Over?! WRONG!

BUT I DON'T CARE! I love the writing, I love the characters, I love how it is more than it seems from the outside, I LOVE THIS BOOK.

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This is mostly a character study of two people, one artificial and one not. It wouldn't be accurate to call this a love story because the usual angst that authors of love stories incorporate to keep the reader breathless and excited and interested are muted and are almost incidental to the telling of this story. Instead this novel keeps the reader interested with prose that makes the characters real and their situations feel authentic despite the story taking place in the future. Nonetheless, love is part of the human condition and the author has the ability to incorporate the many facets of love (parental, fraternal, and amorous) and the complexities love brings to our lives in an engaging (never gratuitous) way. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it without reservation. I paid for this book and have not and will not receive compensation for this review.
This novel was not what I expected at all. I read ‘The Mad Scientist's Daughter’ by Cassandra Rose Clarke anticipating a regular dystopian Science Fiction novel involving androids, but it was so much more. The tone of the novel was almost dream-like, with an atmospheric and dissociate narrative. You feel like you are floating along with the main character, viewing this world from outside of yourself. It’s like nothing I have ever read before and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

The story is told from the POV of Caterina ‘Cat’ Novak, the daughter of our titular mad scientist. Set is a dystopian future America, her father, Dr Daniel Novak is a preeminent Cyberneticist and the start of the novel he brings home Finn, an android, to live with the family. Cat is only a little girl at the time and as per a normal child’s viewpoint doesn’t quite understand what is happening, thinking of Finn as a ghost.

As the novel unfolds we grow up with Cat, starting as a rather precocious child all the way into her adulthood. Once Cat grows out of her childhood she becomes more and more distant to her true self, allowing herself to be pulled along with what others want of her. Not what she wants for herself. I felt that she lost her own sense of identity. Her only real touch stones were her relationships with her parents and Finn.

Her relationship with Finn was complicated. He started off as a friend and confident whilst he was tutoring her but as she got older that changed into a deep and abiding affection and then love. But Finn is an android and doesn’t have feeling so Cat represses her own feelings and judges herself not to be ‘normal’. I wished there was more written about Finn as I found his scenes to be fascinating.

Cat struggling to accept herself for who she is becomes a major theme throughout the book. She mentions wanting and trying to be ‘normal’ many times throughout the story, it’s at these points that I feel she divorces herself from what she wants and goes along with what others are telling her to do. Most of these choices are not what is best for herself and leads her to become more and more distant to the events of her life.

Cat is a deeply flawed character and one I did have trouble really understanding and connecting with but I found myself pulled along with the story. She made some choices that I am still conflicted about and don’t necessarily agree with. By the end of the novel you do understand how much she has grown throughout the book and is aware that her choices have hurt those who love her. She isn’t perfect but she does grow up and mature.

Overall, this is a captivating novel that focuses on a single person’s story rather than a big ‘let’s fix the world’ saga. The story is often melancholy and emotional with a unique voice on what it is to be human and to love.

4/5 Stars! Original dystopian science fiction with a moody, dream-like narrative!

Note Vaginal Fantasy February 2018 Alt book