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Forgettable.

I love these, and not least because my lover reminds me of the titular detective and I remind him of Nevada.

This is an Idea Book with no heart. And the problem with an idea book like this is that you can't discuss the novel in any interesting way without revealing
the 11th hour reveal that the girls are all robots,
but if you do the book is kind of pointless.

With this book, the reveal comes so late that it is barely a surprise and doesn't even matter, because they just set off into the world to figure out how to exist.

Supremely unsatisfying.

I still think Nesta is the worst but I liked this in spite of myself.

Everyone knows that the enemies-to-lovers girls just want to be loved even after someone has seen them at their very worst, and I think that's the fascination with Edie as well. She didn't actually do anything; she doesn't seem to be particularly smart or creative or kind or even vaguely functional. But she's still somehow fascinating, all these years later, despite or because of her messiness. 

Unfortunately, this book is not fascinating in the slightest. It's just a sad attempt by her sister (whom she doesn't appear to have ever been close with) to capitalize on her name and tell her own autobiography. There's nothing new here that isn't in every other biography.