The Plus One - Sarah Archer

I saw this book in Indigo on my birthday. One thing I asked to do on my birthday was go to the book store. I love the book store, which made me think having my own book store would be so great....then I read Diary of a Bookseller and am thinking it might just be best to work in a book store. Anyways, I was in the book store and saw a few books that I thought would be good and might want to buy. My husband looked them up at the library and put them on hold for me instead (I did buy one though, that review will come when I read it!). So this one arrived at the library and after finishing a different book, I was excited to read it.

The book is about Kelly, a robotics engineer who is not very socially adept (surprise, surprise, she's an engineer, so of course she is portrayed this way). At work, Kelly is leading her own project to build a caregiver robot and things are not working out as well as she wants. In her personal life, Kelly's younger sister is about to get married and her mother insists that Kelly bring a date to the wedding. Her mother sets her up with someone and after a date that Kelly walks out on, she gets the idea to build a robot to be her date for the wedding.

Ethan, Kelly's robot boyfriend, is built in a weekend and as Kelly interacts with him he becomes more responsive to her needs, truly becoming the perfect guy. Kelly begins to fall for him. I'm sure you can imagine the challenges that come out of this, especially when Kelly is not able to stand up to her mother to tell her she's broken up with Ethan so she is able to disassemble him and get on with her life.

It started to bother me throughout the book that Kelly just kept letting things get out of control. For someone with such a logical mind, I didn't understand how she could take things so far.

Overall, it was a cute book, but it had flaws that bothered me here and there. I guess I should thank my husband for convincing me to get it from the library rather than spend $22 on it!