To any customer out there Super Book Sales will take good care of you to make your purchase as satisfying as possible. I very much appreciate their stand on customer service. Thank you!I In a nut shell the story is about the protagonist's growth from escaping a technology based society to escaping a religious driven society and finally choosing his own humanity above all else.I love characters with self awareness but it's not meant to be in this story and that's fine cuz the author, I feel, want the readers to see the changes the protagonist goes through by showing the events and choices he made.As far as staying consistent with the character the author passed with flying colors. But as one of the reviewers here said the protagonist is a sterio-type. There's nothing special about him and he's the one telling the story. Pretty awkward. 1 star less for being a disappointment.Still, I gave it a 4 star. It's hardly the hero's fault that he is the way that he is. It's purposely done that way so that readers will take away from it what they are willing to see in his decisions. What I saw was he wants something he didn't understand. He decided to find love.Like I said he is awkward and mean and dumb about it. He gives up easily on true connections. As awkward as he is he wants it. He made a choice on something he has no clue what to do with.His longing for love stems from his mother's lack of love for him. His drive for it stems from his own sexual needs and the beauty of the robot. And it doesn't hurt that the robot never rejects him. This gave him time to actually think about something other than himself. He teaches the robot to act more like a human so she wouldn't get caught outside the "tech" city by religious people who were against robots. He sees her evolution.But he wants more. And the robot starts to be more like a human and she wants more too. But they are in an empasse cuz he wants a relationship but she's not human. And she starts to care about herself but he couldn't really reciprocate so she gets confused about her purpose. They get into an argument and she starts peeling off her skin. Eventually she gets caught and burned by religious people. I said in the beginning that this is about his growth. His choice to search for love led him to one event to another. Is it self-disrespect or is it a denial of reality if a human falls for a robot? But this is also about the robot. What is her purpose once she's given the power to feel? Is she a trope to how we feel as humans? Always searching for meaning. Humans mostly do not have the answers and we rely on something like religion, philosophy, or our family/community to maintain a structure in our lives. But machines have shown it can overtake human progress too. Do we give machines the power to feel or not? They operate on what we tell them to do until they surpass us. What do we really need them for? To help humans until we get scared because they are dominant than us? If this happens, the true question is, how do we really define ourselves as humans? What is the purpose of technology for us? If technology continues a thousand years from now could we say we mastered ourselves or did we master it's engineering so it will do everything for us? It is akin to slavery, isn't it? Are we really so helpless that we are destined to enslave something to make us feel better?It's also about what kind of religion a person believes. The hero starts feeling guilty for the robot's tragedy. Something he hasn't felt before. He seeks for spiritual help. What is the answer to too much technology and too much devotion to religion? Will these two suppositions ever stop and agree on something?Finish the book and find out.