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I am writing this review several months ahead of posting it\nfor its release, and honestly it is going to KILL ME to spend the entire late\nspring, summer, and early fall without people to talk to about this book. But\nhey! Thanks to the miracle of [checks notes] saving things and posting them\nlater, you now exist in a world where you can go get Cog<\/em> for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Much better world<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the story of a young robot boy who doesn’t want to\nbe a human, he wants to be his own best robotty self. He is full of curiosity\nand loyalty and conviction and also a determination to learn from his mistakes.\nPossibly by making as many of them as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also has a weaponized sister, a robot dog, and a couple\nof other companions I will leave as the glorious surprises they are. And also\nmaybe some unexpected special powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is great<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has a very satisfying plot arc, but truly I would just be\nhappy to hang out with Cog while he shops for cheese and figures out the world.\nHis voice is lovable and satisfying and fun. The themes of the story are the\nsorts of things that you probably already know–even if you’re part of its\nchild audience–but never fully internalize. This book is a delight.\nSelf-actualizing robots forever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Review copy provided by the author. I am writing this review several months ahead of posting it for its release, and honestly it is going to KILL ME to spend the entire late spring, summer, and early fall without people to talk to about this book. But hey! Thanks to the miracle of [checks notes] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}