For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful and provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her owner, exploring issues of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
Annie Bot was created to be the ideal girlfriend for her owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she cooks him dinner every night, dresses him in the naughty outfits he orders, and regulates his sexual desires according to his mood. It's true that she's not good at keeping Doug's house spotless, but she tries to please him. She is trying very hard.She also studies.
Doug says he likes that Annie's AI makes her more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits like curiosity, secrets, and desires. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie's relationship with Doug becomes more complicated and difficult, she begins to wonder: Does Doug really want what he wants? What did he say he wanted? And in such an impossible paradox, what is Annie to do?
