Speak by Louisa Hall is a sci-fi and fantasy and general fiction (adult) read.
She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?
From Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s to a Silicon Valley Wunderkind imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls, from a pilgrim girl writing her diary to a traumatised young girl exchanging messages with a software program: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak, she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and in warning.
This was a confusing read for me. Very good but the way it kept going back and forth. 3*. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book from netgalley.

I really enjoyed this book. There are several alternating timelines stretching from the seventeenth century forward to 2040. It was really interested to see the evolution of AIs across such a long period of time. It really showed the slow shift in the reliance of people on technology over time; changing from tentative curiosity to a complete emotional dependence on computers.
As a big fan of Alan Turing, I really enjoyed his letters. I think my favourite was the dialogue between a child and the AI who acts as her therapist, after the loss of the child's baby AI. It was such an intense and unique relationship, and I could have read a whole book just about them.