From Goodreads
Don't tell anyone, but Jen is one of my favourite people.
(Machines aren't supposed to have favourites. Don't ask me how this has happened.)
Jen is sad. Aiden wants her to be happy. Simple? Except that Jen is a thirty-something woman whose boyfriend has just left her and Aiden is a very complicated, very expensive piece of software.
Aiden has calculated that Jen needs a man in her life for optimum wellbeing. And with the whole of the internet at his disposal, he doesn't have to look far to find a perfect specimen and engineer a meeting.
But what, exactly, makes human beings happy? And can a very-artificially-intelligent machine discover emotional intelligence in time to fix Jen's life?
My thoughts
This was a random read that I grabbed from my local Library one day. I had never heard of it or the Author before I saw it there one day.
What an unusual premise for a story. An inanimate object forms an attachment to a lady whose boyfriend has just left her. If only that object was human he would be in his element. As Aiden the inanimate object falls for Jen it's obvious that nothing can come of any feelings he may have for her. How can he help her find someone to take the place of her ex, who will treat her in the manner that he would have done if he was able to. So his quest begins and Jen begins her future life without her ex.
Told from the perspective of many of the characters, you need to keep your wits about you as you read the story as each chapter is by someone different, but the author makes you aware of whose perspective the story is from. This was an enjoyable romance that was odd at times, but had you wanting Aiden to succeed in his quest as that would have meant Jen had a happy ever after.
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