Mila 2.0: Mila 2.0 | Debra Driza
Published by: Katherine Tegen Books, March 12th 2013
Genre: YA, Science Fiction
Pages: 470
Format: Ebook
Source: Purchased
Mila 2.0 is the first book in an electrifying sci-fi thriller series about a teenage girl who discovers that she is an experiment in artificial intelligence.
Mila was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was a girl living with her mother in a small Minnesota town. She was supposed to forget her past—that she was built in a secret computer science lab and programmed to do things real people would never do.
Now she has no choice but to run—from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much and from a mysterious group that wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology. However, what Mila’s becoming is beyond anyone’s imagination, including her own, and it just might save her life.
Mila 2.0 is Debra Driza’s bold debut and the first book in a Bourne Identity-style trilogy that combines heart-pounding action with a riveting exploration of what it really means to be human. Fans of I Am Number Four will love Mila for who she is and what she longs to be—and a cliffhanger ending will leave them breathlessly awaiting the sequel.
For the first third of this book I might as well have picked up any realistic contemp, bitchy high school clique novel. And there's a reason I don't read those - I can't abide them. They're boring as anything. They're unimaginative (there's more than one kind of drama someone can experience at school, and most of those are more important than catty gossip.) It just reads lazy and flat. Which is funny, since I thought I was getting into a sci fi book, and there's very little hint at Mila being an android - she has ... fast reflexes in one scene??
We didn't get off to the right start, Mila 2.0 and me.
The romance was dull, predictable, and weird. For a girl who went on like ... two dates with a guy, to be obsessed with him, for him to be the only reminder that she's human ... yeah. Okay. The pacing was god awful as well. BUT I did like a fair deal of things about the second half of this book.
The first half of this book could well have been written by someone different to the second. The last half was full of high octane stakes, tension, action, a suicidal concourse test, and all the other exciting things I'd been expecting in the rest of the book. Mila grew as a character, though the constant mentions of Heath or Hunter or whatever his name was, that got irritating. I liked the science assistant guy (clearly he was memorable, because I totally remember his name) and hope to see more of him in the next book - because I will be reading book two. I'm just praying that it's as fast paced and perf as the half of Mila 2.0 that I loved reading.
We didn't get off to the right start, Mila 2.0 and me.
The romance was dull, predictable, and weird. For a girl who went on like ... two dates with a guy, to be obsessed with him, for him to be the only reminder that she's human ... yeah. Okay. The pacing was god awful as well. BUT I did like a fair deal of things about the second half of this book.
The first half of this book could well have been written by someone different to the second. The last half was full of high octane stakes, tension, action, a suicidal concourse test, and all the other exciting things I'd been expecting in the rest of the book. Mila grew as a character, though the constant mentions of Heath or Hunter or whatever his name was, that got irritating. I liked the science assistant guy (clearly he was memorable, because I totally remember his name) and hope to see more of him in the next book - because I will be reading book two. I'm just praying that it's as fast paced and perf as the half of Mila 2.0 that I loved reading.
All in all, a decent book once you get going, with potential to be the start of a great trilogy.
Characters ★★☆☆☆
Setting/world building ★★★☆☆
Writing Style ★★★☆☆
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