Praise for Simple Machines:“A glorious masterpiece.”“The best work of fiction I have read all year.”“Romeo & Juliet as imagined from a demented mind. Disturbing, yet perfect.”No Ordinary Love Story.In trying to build the perfect companion, Xander Manning found the real thing.He was a successful businessman.A lifetime devoted to constructing the perfect woman.Chloe Armstrong was a struggling … constructing the perfect woman.
Chloe Armstrong was a struggling artist.
Half Xander’s age, and with twice the emotional baggage.
A chance encounter saw their paths cross…
A bond developed, and a love soon blossomed…
But not all was as it seemed.
The relationship was doomed to tragedy.
Only one of them saw it coming…
All they wanted was love, compassion and a sense of belonging.
They were simple machines, after all.
Just like you.
Discover the year’s biggest twist in this roller coaster romance suspense story that will leave you breathless…
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Wow what a story! I was totally engrossed in this book, the story started simply with a man inventing a robot that could be every man’s perfect girl friend, she was so realistic that from a distance you couldn’t tell that she was a machine and he was about to make a fortune, then his whole world falls apart. Mackay writes so well that you can imagine everything that happens and you become part of the story either as a spectator or a character, l couldn’t even guess what was going to happen and was totally shocked with the ending. I volunteered to write this review and I recommend this book for adults only as there is swearing, sex and violence.
Some subjects I just can’t stomach
This book focuses on pedophilia in such a way that it physically sickened me. In a time when this entire world seems to have lost itself to every filthy deed and habit, this book fits right into that horrifying agenda. The graphic descriptions of scenes and the feel of perverse pleasure disguised as ignorance has completely put me off this author.
Tonight, Manning, Inc. will introduce an artificial intelligence, MAVIS, that surpasses all others by leaps and bounds: The Girlfriend Experience. This morning, Charlotte Manning, Alexander’s wife of eight years, told him she wants a divorce.
So Xander, as he’s known, is feeling a bit unmoored that evening when he meets Chloe Armstrong at the post-reveal reception. He’s immediately poleaxed by her combination of sensuality and naïveté, which is when he jumps on the train to his doom.
Beginning on the chauffeured ride home, Chloe assaults Xander with her raw sexuality, intoxicating him to the point of obsession. Having been fixated on MAVIS for years and intent on a deal with wealthy investor Stockard Mazlow, Xander suddenly loses interest to the point that his primary shareholder, Scott, as well as his best friend, Ben, who works for the company, attempt to shake some sense into him, to no avail. No matter how many times they point out Chloe’s youth and how she’s distracting the company president from the launch of a billion-dollar game changer, Xander ignores them, because Chloe has become his entire world.
Meanwhile, as she negotiates a rocky family life and studies she hates, Chloe clings to the man she sees as her way out of the shadow of the Freeway Five in East Chrome Valley. She uses all her abilities to pull Xander into her web, while Manning, Inc. is testing a product so incendiary that, when she witnesses a crucial investor test, tells Xander, “You’ve killed us all.”
As all hell breaks loose and Xander dives deeper into delusion, Chrome Valley is also breaking apart, reeling from a school shooting and suicide bombing coinciding with an important event at Manning, Inc. Death is in the air — blood, bodies, and madness —common in Chrome Valley, paths which Mackay has taken readers down before, but never have those byways been so disturbing. The all-consuming passion of Xander, the calculated cruelty of Chloe, the hypersexual madness MAVIS induces, are utterly unsettling.
Andrew Mackay has never shied away from illuminating the darkest corners of humanity, and he relentlessly shines that klieg light in the shocking work that is Simple Machines.
Andrew MacKay’s world’s can just hit you in the gut sometimes. My first impression of Xander Manning is what a misogynistic, self absorbed, fool, which MacKay had him play to the hilt !! Sometimes I liked Manning and though he might get his act together. Charlotte, his wife, seemed to be the best thing about him. And along comes Chloie, wow I’ve seen her type all over magazines, t.v. and maybe even in your own high school or college. I really had a love hate relation with Chloie she is smart, stunning and so immature at the same time. The rest of the characters do their role oh so well and then there is MAVIS. Manning’s artificial intelligence creation, she has so much potential and so much good could be done by her but the A.I. is only as good as her developer and lets face it Manning is one f**k up dude. At times the book verged on porn but again this is from Manning’s perspective. No one is an innocent in this story and the twisted plot just dropped my jaw. I could not put this one down. With all the intensity of a runaway freight train it explodes on impact and what is left is a stunned crowd.
I love Andrew’s books! Buy Simple Machines now, you will not be sorry!