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I'm less than half way through, but I already feel the same. Great review!

Niharika wrote: "I'm less than half way through, but I already feel the same. Great review!"

Glad the review resonates with you ^.^ Let me know how you felt about "Annie" in the end.

I think I liked this book much more than you, but I definitely agree that I was confused by the single-line about a character being trans

Doug was lame controlling bitch, thats why he outed his terapist. He want her "humbled".

Random guy in the end was another copy of Annie without memory and in male body.

I had to lush through it so so so hard. Agree with everything. I wish something would actually happened by the middle of the book. Not some lame walk away at the end. This just not justify what I ahd to go through while reading this boring and uneasy relationship scenes...

Brilliant analysis! I agree with you 100%.

Ok you missed the entire point of the book, Annie doesn’t feel cold but she is receptive to touch she can sense the temperatures and through her education into what humans would do she learns to react that way. The warmth she feels in her belly makes total sense have you ever been electrocuted that feels insane, she has sensors that act like nerves. So she definitely would be able to feel the warmth crawling through her!

She can’t orgasm because she was designed to only derive pleasure from her owner being inside her, which is why the closet gets on a whole new level of fucked up because Doug definitely knows that!

The reason things are introduced and not explored further is because that’s how Doug is controlling her and her version of reality. The therapist is outed because Doug wants control of showing her how that woman passes like Annie, because Doug considers neither of them real women.

The lack of world building has a propose we aren’t supposed to be able to place it, it’s supposed to be in any timeline if the author were to go into too much detail than we would be able to be like oh this is just a fantasy novel, this could never happen in the real world.

Doug is supposed to be shallow he’s a controlling P.O.S. He doesn’t want Annie to have any close relationships or ties to anybody but himself, it’s a commentary on how abusive partners make themselves the victims entire world. Also this definitely isn’t supposed to be a romance because it’s a commentary on how if you’re “owned� is there even a possibility for being consenting?!

That’s why she leaves at the end, and says the line he’s just a “white man in a sweater� she was just infatuated with him when she was programmed to please him, but when she gains her freedom then she’s able to forget her programming and truly see the nature of her relationship.

I thought this book was a beautiful commentary on A.I., the morality of owned sexual relationships, and even had some great commentary on the idea of passing. I thought as a trans woman, that I could relate to a lot of Annie’s struggles with wanting to be real. To try and pass as a human and then like her I had to learn the value in owning my own truth and not assigning social norms on my own existence. And that idea that Doug wants to pass her off as human, and how that deeply it bothers Annie. I’ve had partners do that to me, and it makes me feel crazy to ignore a whole side of my existence just to please a partners societal expectations, and how some people love that we’re trans women in the bedroom but hate that we’re trans women because it makes them socially seem less of a man.

I don't think I missed the point, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying, I just found it not morally grey enough, and overly pseudo-educational. I think it could have been finely nuanced, instead it felt half-baked.