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Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
Ecksdot by J Washburn (whose first name really is only J) is an unusual story about a boy called Nate, his friend Danny (though he first doesn't want to admit that he's friends with him as he's not cool enough), and a group of robot beings who have human heads but the bodies of cyborgs. However, the andbots - as they are called - do not live in the same kind of reality as humans. They live in a different layer, and you can only see them and talk to them when you are a Nexus. And Nate is one (how he becomes one is a story that I won't spoil for you). He learns that a virus is turning one andbot after the other into an evil andbot. And he wants to help Ecks, one of the bots, to find a cure for the virus. But it is not easy when the people around Nate believe that he is going crazy, and it also does not help that Slash, the first evil bot, is after Nate.
Ecksdot by J Washburn has a plot that combines robots, multiple layer worlds and a coming of age story in just one novel. I usually don't read robot stories, I dislike them very much, but for some reason Ecksdot never really comes across as a robot story. The andbots are more like the android Data from Star Trek which turns them into rather interesting beings. I would have liked more information about what they are and where they came from, but unfortunately that might always remain a mystery because the bots themselves do not remember a thing about their origin. It is an enjoyable story and especially in the second half of the book you simply don't want to stop until you have found out what happens at the end.
