Now for the mystery part of this story and what helped me love it so much. We got to see how/why her arm was doing certain things after a while and how it pertained to the other things that we’re having to do with her life.

All of the robotics stuff mentioned in the story was very easy to follow along with, even the programming talk. Of course, she does make some questionable decisions because she’s a teenager but those were to be expected especially considering the position she was in. Lena is a character that I loved, she was extremely smart and was piecing things together before anyone else was. Overall I loved this book and couldn’t get enough of it. She has no real adult to turn to during this time, leaving it just to her and her new friends to figure it out on their own. Lena is also dealing with her arm doing things she doesn’t want it to do at times and is also living off of very little sleep which makes everything far more complicated. She does make new/old friends again though and these two end up helping her not only deal with accepting her arm but also figure out what is happening to her and why people who work in her parent’s companies children are ending up dead. She is understandably upset about this considering her views on robotics, but things get worse as her ‘friends’ abandon her. Lena is very against this and is anti-tech for the most part, but her entire world ends up changing when she gets into an accident that causes her to have a robotic arm. Lena is a young woman whose parents are very into tech and run a tech company that specializes in robotics, and have also started working on making robotic limbs for people that will act and eventually look exactly like real body parts do. You’ll love this fast-paced young adult sci-fi because the twists and turns will keep you flipping the pages. When the evidence points to her, Lena decides to prove her innocence-or her guilt. And thanks to her sleepwalking, Lena doesn’t know what she was doing during the murders. To Lena, this is just another example of how CyberCorp-her parents’ company and the manufacturer of the arm-screws up everything.Īs the rollout of CyberCorp’s new android approaches, a murderer targets children of the company’s employees. It acts when she doesn’t tell it to, even when she’s asleep.Įver since she got the new limb, she’s been sleepwalking and waking in odd places.

The arm’s artificial intelligence takes Lena’s thoughts to the extreme. Now, Lena’s stuck with this cybernetic arm, and her friends are terrified of her. It was supposed to help her, not turn her into a monster.

Girl of Flesh and Metal by Alicia Ellis