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Good book. Easy read. Never boring. Always something going on. Towards the end, I delayed finishing 'Machines Like Me' because I feared a super-sad ending. The conclusion was not "super-sad." It made sense, but left me feeling undone, but that's because, for the humans, their story was left undone.

In 'Machines Like Me' the protagonist's girlfriend's best friend, Mariam, an 'immigrant' was raaped. The author isn't fluent in the tenants of the M.E. religion this immigrant family followed. For the fiction Mariam kept the rpe secret, (fatally), since she greatly feared what her kin would have done in seeking out the perpetrator. In real life U.K., she would've been the only person in peril of losing her life...