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MILA 2.0 - Debra Driza I want to point out that I don't write proper reviews for books I don't finish reading but since I made so many notes during the first 50% of this book (before I gave up) I thought I'd share them here.

I have to say that I'm in the minority when it comes to this book though, most of my GRs friends enjoyed the story and rated it quite highly. So don't just go on my review if you're trying to decide whether to read it or not - this one obviously just wasn't for me.

There were so many things about the story that didn't make sense and that ruined the book for me. I've hidden my notes saying exactly what bothered me behind a spoiler tag so don't continue further if you've not read the book and don't wish to have the first half spoiled for you.

Beware: Rant ahead!

- Mila's mother is a scientist who is capable of creating the most sophisticated android the military has and now she's in hiding working as a vet who specialises in horses - just how many degrees does this woman have?

- They're on the run from the military, MILA (which stands for Mobile Intel Lifelike Android) is a stolen robot and her "mother" is trying to protect her. Why then does her mother a) send her to school in the first place (especially when her implanted memories are of being home schooled) and b) not change her daughters name to anything other than Mila? Seriously, how hard would it be for the military to search school registers for 16 year old girls called Mila??

- Her best friend Kaylee literally tries to kill her. I know teenage girls can be bitches (I saw that first hand at school!) but would someone really be stupid enough to make you sit in the back of their truck & then drive at high speeds until you go flying out to what should be your death? All this because the boy Kaylee likes (Hunter) seems more interested in Mila than in her.

- On the subject of Hunter what is it with YA and instalove? I'm sick to death of it, they talk to each other about twice & go on one date before Mila makes the discovery that she is an android and has to run for her life. Now you'd think with the shock of that she would be more interested in finding out about her past but no she's too busy mooning over the fact that she had to leave Hunter behind & will never see him again. FFS!

- When they go on the run we discover that dear old "Mum" happens to have ready made passports for both of them in fake names. Since she happens to have these false identities to hand I ask again - why did she enrol Mila at school without changing her name first? Just to make it easier for the military to find them??

- Speaking of the military how did they track them down (apart from the obvious stupidity with her name!)? It's a little convenient that they turn up within days of Mila finding out the truth.

- What was the point of giving Mila false memories of a fire that supposedly killed her father when he never existed in the first place? Why traumatise her with something like that when you could just say he left them when she was a baby?

- When Mila's android abilities start kicking in a lot of them just don't make sense. She's able to project data into the air like some kind of projector. Where does the light come from? Surely if she has magical light up eyeballs it would be noticeable! There was no explanation for how it worked.

- I also had trouble believing that her program updates itself wirelessly from the military's technology but there is supposed to be no way for them to track her.

- When the bad guys track them to the hotel they are staying in rather than just storm the room in the middle of the night they decide to knock on the door and announce themselves. OK so they pretend to be hotel maintenance needing access to the hotel fuse box but how many hotels have their fuse boxes hiding in a guest's room rather than somewhere they have access to 24/7? What kind of maintenance guys knock on your door after 2am anyway? Seriously are these the most stupid bad guys in history or have I missed the point somewhere?

- I didn't understand how Mila was able to signal the security computers at the airport so that the scans show a normal person walking through them not an android. That just becomes even more ridiculous when she then sets off the alarms because she has a balled up gum wrapper in her pocket. Come on, since when does paper set of airport security?

- Why does the airport dog sense something about her and start barking? We've never had any evidence to show animals don't like her until that point - she's able to ride the horses her mum looks after without a problem and horses tend to be quite skittish.

- This then leads onto the most ridiculous and pointless chase scene in history - seriously I don't think I've ever read anything so stupid in my entire life (& I've read over 1000 books just in the last 3 years!). Airport security try to stop Mila and her mother yet they manage to run past all 9 guards who are at check in plus the security dog?! If airport security is really that rubbish I don't think I'm ever getting on a plane again! They make it into the duty free area and military expert android Mila decides that the best way to slow down security is by throwing ice cream on the floor "hoping the slickness would slow our pursuers". You really are too stupid to survive this book aren't you Mila!

- Mother and android proceed to make it through an empty gate, survive the fall from the gate down to the ground, steal a luggage truck and end up being chased around the airport by security. Mila starts throwing suitcases at the chasing cars smashing one of their windscreens so the car ends up being hit by a plane and then she thinks "Hopefully we'd managed to buy ourselves some time without really seriously injuring anyone". WTF??? Come on, you just risked the lives of half the airport security and every single innocent passenger on the plane and you're hopeful you didn't hurt anyone. Are you kidding me?

- So after that completely crazy, unrealistic and utterly pointless chase scene guess what happens? They get caught. Surprise f*cking surprise! What was the point of all that apart from to cause me eye strain from all the eye rolling I was doing?

- What makes it even worse is that I couldn't understand why they were even running. All they needed to do was let security search them for drugs and see that they didn't have anything dodgy with them and they'd have let them go. Instead they end up caught and in a whole shit load of extra trouble - running from security, stealing, criminal damage, endangering lives, entering restricted areas and actually driving across a runway in front of a plane that is trying to take off. I'm pretty sure there are other charges that could be held against them but I'm beyond caring at this point.

I just couldn't bring myself to read another page, the book had pushed me way beyond the realms of believability and right into I couldn't give a crap