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I give this book a 4,5 star rating (like the first big review the robots get for their restaurant). A hopeful story with elements of allegory set in near-future San Francisco. A quick, delightful read with many tender, thoughtful moments.

Robots want to set up a noodle restaurant.

It takes a top notch writer to turn that premise into a story that's both sweet and exciting.

Annalee Newitz is that author.

Equally good for those of us who've previously had contact with linguistics as well as those who've just started wondering how people use language and how that changes over time. Well written and entertaining.

Well this was a rollercoaster and I don't know how I feel about the ending, but I think I enjoyed this book, despite there being days when I could not read it because I felt like I couldn't handle it emotionally.

I love the opening sentences of this book. "Abbott Coburn had spent much of his twenty-six years dreading the wrong things, in the wrong amounts, for the wrong reasons. So it was appropriate that in his final hours before achieving international infamy, he was dreading a routine trip he'd accepted as a driver for the rideshare service Lyft."

I liked this book. But I kept having to think of the mantra of the good citizens in Hot Fuzz: for the Greater Good. But I guess that was to be expected from a book in a series that is a pun on "vigilantes".