REVIEW: Garbage: An MM Robot Romance- Book 1 The SPARK Files – Reese Morrison

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Book 1 The SPARK Files
Reese Morrison
MM, Robot Romance, Gay, LGBTQ+
self
7/25/23
Kindle
208
Amazon

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Evan isn’t brave.

But when he hears a group of Human Firsters attacking a humanoid garbage collection bot, he has to step in. He rescues an undiscovered SPARK, a self-aware android who’s never experienced life outside of his collection route and the miserable, gray trash depot.

Evan wants to help. But he might have underestimated just how cute Quincy can be. Or just how difficult it would be living with a sexy android who’s exactly his type. But if Evan couldn’t get his crappy exes to stick around, how could he ever capture Quincy’s interest?

Quincy loves flowers growing in sidewalk cracks. And making food in Evan’s kitchen, even though he can’t eat it. Oh, and jokes. Quincy loves jokes. He’s kind of even getting good at them.

Most of all, he loves Evan.

As Quincy settles into his new life, he can't escape from prejudice against SPARKs. Evan is everything he wants, if only he can stay off the Human Firsters’ radar long enough to win his love.

Garbage is a hurt/comfort story with a cuddliest android you’ve ever met and a sweet, submissive man who wishes he were good enough to deserve him. It has sloth jokes, a kidnapping, an android trying to figure out humanity (and paperclips!), body positivity, and kinky fun with some extra robot appendages…

Note: Trigger warnings for hate speech, on-page assault, and body shaming (with all of the support, humor, complexity, and acceptance you'd expect from a Reese book!)

Review By Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team

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Evan met CNS-84-2 when the robot was being attacked. He managed to save CNS-84-2.
Before he suffered any harm and took him home with him. Evan realized that the robot was sentient and had feelings he was a SPARK, and they began a friendship. Evan decided to give CNS-84-2 a name, Quincy, and from that moment on they became roommates.
Evan drove Quincy to work in the morning so he could do his job as a garbage man and picked him up at night. He asked his best friend Ben to add additional memory into Quincy and some other improvements. As they spend time together Evan begins to have feelings for Quincy, he has a fascination with AI’s watches AI porn and has even experienced sexual time with some of them. Unfortunately, Quincy has no sexual organ, but Evan still enjoys his goodness, his willingness to learn and his love for simple things, like his own towel.
Now Quincy must be registered as a SPARK so he can get his own job and live freely. As he is now, he belongs to the government and has no individuality. Everything Quincy sees he learns, he learns how to cook, he learns how to shop on the computer, and he learns from some of Evan’s friends who are also SPARKS.
There is also constant fear of attacks from a group called Humans First who are not happy about robots taking their jobs. Even now we see more and more how people are being replaced by machines, i.e. toll booths, phoning companies and not getting a human to answer. I have yelled at the phone many times for a human, so bad.
Evan loves having Quincy around and Quincy loves being with him, but Evan has had bad luck in the past with the men he fell in love with, all of them left him and he is convinced that once Quincy is registered and can be on his own, he will leave him too. As much as Quincy says Evan is wrong, Evan is still afraid.
This was a very interesting book . It reminded me of Star Trek and the android Data, having to prove he was sentient and had feelings. Quincy has feelings and is like a child in a candy store, every new thing he learns excites him and he learns everything very quickly.
There are surprises, some violence by Humans First but that isn’t unusual since we humans find any reason to hate, religion, being gay or abortion we just need something to find and hate.
Unfortunately, we live in a world that is so angry, and a sentient robot would be just a perfect cause for hatred.

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