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I know I am not in the target audience for YA thrillers, but this one had way too much love-sick android for me. Where oh where was all the thrill-a-minute action of the first book? For well over half the book Mila was just mooing over Hunter. Do I like him - Do I trust him? Over and over. Not a bad guy in sight. The last third was okay and will keep me on track for the wrap up in book 3.


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MILA 20 Renegade Debra Driza Books Reviews

Review 3 ½ out of 5 stars

The gorgeous eye-catching cover of Mila 2.0 is what initially captured my attention of this book and the intriguing synopsis had me sold; I have only recently started to embrace the Sci-Fi genre and Debra Driza’s action-packed debut certainly kept me entertained from the beginning through to the end but also left me with a number of unanswered questions.

Sixteen year-old Mila believed she was a human living in a small town with her ‘mother’ after the death of her ‘father’ and was never meant to find out that she was an android, built in a science lab and kept hidden to avoid not only the person who helped create her but another group intent on using her for her abilities.

Mila was a really sweet likeable character, I adored her devotion, vulnerability and loyalty, and you wouldn’t have guessed she was a machine based on her emotions and feelings; she really grew in strength as the story progressed both in personality and physically but it took me a while to fully understand her and the reasoning behind why everything had been kept so hidden; I think there is a lot of information we are yet to find out.

The plot was quite intriguing; Mila was created as a military experiment in artificial intelligence and has been programmed to do the unimaginable and the group behind the experiment were brutal in their teachings and with the plans they had for her. The story was written well, the ongoing action and the information we are being fed kept the pacing consistent although at times I found it was information overload, scenes were being drawn out and sensory details seemed at times to be missing, it was enjoyable none the less but as the first book in the series, it didn’t truly wow me.

I liked the secondary characters but we don’t really learn a lot about each of them, I wanted to know more about Hunter especially but he didn’t play a huge role and I feel there is still a lot we haven’t yet found out about him. Lucas was wonderful but also quite mysterious and Mila 3.0 and the bad guys were each written well but needed to be further developed.

I would have loved more romance and initially I thought there would be an opportunity between Hunter/Mila but unfortunately nothing really progressed, although he seemed to play heavily in her thoughts there was no real outcome and he was absent for a majority of the book.

The ending was heart wrenching and I still have a number of unanswered questions so I am definitely eager to see how the story progresses in the sequel.

Overall, Mila 2.0 is filled with conspiracies, violence, intense action scenes and hopefully the possibility of a budding romance; it left me satisfied yet eager to learn more.

Thank-you kindly to Harper Collins Children, for the opportunity to read and review Mila 2.0.
I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, seeing it's from a droid's POV and all, but here are my key notes on it (SPOILERS)
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1. While I felt the first part was dragged and way too detailed, I think it might've been important in order to make the reader somehow relate to Mila's thought process through common experiences.

2. It kept me hooked. I mean, I started it less than a day ago, so kudos to the author for that.

3. I had so many technical questions - like, how did she recharge? Did she somehow have a renewable energy source? How did she fool the full-body scanner? It's mentioned that her brain projected an image of a normal human body to the machine, but, that's maybe a little too far fetched? Why did the dogs have a problem with her?

4. Why were all the other female characters, excluding her mom, unconditionally mean? Kaylee and Parker being the most prominent (only?) examples.

5. When Nicole stole Mila, why didn't she flee the country? Y'know, since the military and the CIA were on her back. Why didn't she leave right then?

6. How come she didn't have a kill switch or an override of some sort? Do they really need to take away her actual physical "brain" and replace it with a newer one to override her programming?

7. If this was a covert ops droid, how come they never thought of making her look human through her injuries? Operatives get injured occasionally, right? Wouldn't the white goo give her away on the field? Especially if her injury wasn't in her limbs where she could say it was prosthetic.

8. For a project that cost the government "hundreds of millions of dollars", a 16 year old girl seems like a poor choice for the task in hand. Did they usually have operatives that young? Wouldn't her age, in a lot of situations, make her look suspicious?

Over all, despite the time questions I have, this was a good book. I'm not sure if I'd pick up the sequel, but I didn't hate it. It was intriguing, and new. I've always been a fan of fiction that discussed if droids could ever be "real" or human - what makes us human, really? Our emotions? Reactions? Biological formation? Every work of fiction handles a different perspective, and it's amazing.
I don't very much like the ratings because I feel that if I like something then it should be three stars and this book just doesn't feel like a 4 star. I liked it but it could've been better.

Instead of going into the summary I'll talk about the points I did like I did like Mila. I found myself sympathizing with her and feeling giddy with her over Hunter but sadly that was the extent of my like for her. Her "reawakening" was interesting and I felt like she was rightly justified in her actions. Though at some point I was scratching my head as to why she was so obsessed with Hunter when she'd only talked to him like twice before leaving him. I guess it could be explained away by saying she basically imprinted on him but that was just lazy.

This was still a fun read. It was one of those books where I wasn't expecting a masterful piece of literature just something to pass the time.
I know I am not in the target audience for YA thrillers, but this one had way too much love-sick android for me. Where oh where was all the thrill-a-minute action of the first book? For well over half the book Mila was just mooing over Hunter. Do I like him - Do I trust him? Over and over. Not a bad guy in sight. The last third was okay and will keep me on track for the wrap up in book 3.