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No one else in the world seems to remember The Electric Grandmother, one of my favorite 1980s movies. I’ve asked many of my friends; none of them have seen it. The grandma in the movie was a robotic woman who could shoot chocolate milk out of her index finger. How awesome is that?!

So the entire time I was reading The Perfect Wife, I kept thinking that Abbie (or her bot version) was the 21st century version of The Electric Grandmother.

There are some major news-worthy headlines going on in this story. I hesitate to put them in print because *you just need to read it for yourself* people! The back-and-forth perspective between the chapters left me unsettled, and then I realized that I didn’t relax at all while reading this book. Author J.P. Delaney worked in several controversial threads that made the entire story feel like a political statement at times. The end result was an interesting, cautionary tale that could be a glass-half-empty or glass-half-full scenario, depending on where you stand.

I fear that I may not actually be smart enough to understand this book, because the end is confusing to me in a big way. I think I get it, but could use some Spark Notes to help me out.

Ultimately, I’d give this book 4 out of 5 stars. The pace was slow, yet all-consuming, and I felt rather disoriented while trying to figure out the details.