@phinds, et al, as a sci fi writer and reviewer, I'm finding Amazon reviews increasingly useless, and esp. now that you can 'rate' a book without even having to add any text. Originally, Amazon allowed a comments feature, so you could engage with reviewers, but that quietly disappeared years ago (the comments are still there, though. There's one author who attacked readers who posted low-star reviews with the most aggressive vitriol, it was astounding, I guess that's part of why comments were retired).
But thank goodness for the 'Look Inside' feature. I read a few paragraphs further than that execrable opening sentence, and the prose seems clumsy, first time author / no professional editor style and the premise seems salacious:
He is almighty, as in sprinting, swimming, long jump, and several
other sporting races, he beats all Olympic gold medalists. He has
even been added genitals with decent size despite the inability to
produce sperms and reproduce. One female scientist named Mei
Lee tested its functionality. Of course, Boson did not feel the
pleasure as he was only programmed to pump.
"He" is the robot, and it doesn't appear to improve, but I wonder how much of the jarring tone is due to translation? I did not find Liu Cixin's
The Three-Body Problem the 5-star triumph many others did, and I know part of that was translation, both literal English and cultural references.
Still, for three of the four 'reviewers' of this novel, it is their first one, and the other has a review for a physical product and his review of this novel doesn't even appear on his Amazon profile. I'd imagine the author (or whoever
@Cathythegreat is, perhaps a bot?) has lobbed in similar "Look at this" posts on sci-fi forums the world over, but no number of gee-whiz suggestions is going to make this clunky story shine.
