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After reading Everything I Never Told You, I needed something completely different. Adam Christopher’s Made to Kill might as well have been made to order. The protagonist, Raymond Electromatic, is the world’s last robot. He works as a private detective in Los Angeles with the help of an early supercomputer called Ada sometime in the early 1960s. He’s not supposed to know that he is also an assassin because his memory tapes are erased every 24 hours, but he has flashes of memories anyway. Though Made to Kill is chock full of Cold War science fiction tropes, it’s a weirdly fun existentialist drama...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.