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iceangel32's review
4.0
This was a really good sequel. The mysteries continue. This book includes another robot and antagonists for both Sammy and E. This is a story where life gets in the way and parents might have life get in the way. Sammy steps up in this story to help his mom in the end. Go E! Great story. On to book 3
ktpants's review
5.0
My son thought it was a 5 because: “it’s amazing and cool. The football part was cool because I used to play football.”
nikkibd4033's review against another edition
2.0
I read this book out loud to my kids (ages 5&9). The only reason it's getting an extra star from me is because at least they liked it. Otherwise it would have gotten only one.
But for the adults, this book is really terrible. I'd recommend only getting it for your kids if they are going to read it independently.
The way the story was told had this weird fourth-wall thing going. And the narrator (Sammy, the protagonist) used the word Yep all the time, like what he was telling us was so unbelievable. Honestly, if I'd had this on Kindle, I would have done a search for the word 'Yep' to see how often it was used.
Also, there were a ton of sentence fragments used to make a point. To me, it's just a junk-filled space where my mom spends way too much time. Working. With the door locked. It's not that doing the sentence fragment thing is always wrong, it actually can be used to good effect. But in this book it was used WAY too often. Like, every single chapter often. (
And, after listening to I, Funny (and its sequel) on audiobook, and reading this, it's obvious that Patterson thinks that characters with disabilities have to be INSPIRATIONAL instead of allowing them to be fully fleshed-out characters with actual human personalities. Maddie had NO personality outside of "being strong despite a debilitating illness." Which is a pity, because there isn't enough disability representation in kids books (or any books, really) so I overlooked it a little bit with Jamie in I, Funny because it's awesome that there's a book with a wheelchair bound protagonist. And it's nice that there is a representation of a girl with a chronic debilitating illness in this book. But....all there is to her character is her illness, despite being the sister and very-best-friend of the first-person protagonist.
The dialog is cringe-worthy bad, which is only more noticeable when the book is being read out loud.
But like I said, my kids loved the book. Because it had robots and fart jokes in it.
But for the adults, this book is really terrible. I'd recommend only getting it for your kids if they are going to read it independently.
The way the story was told had this weird fourth-wall thing going. And the narrator (Sammy, the protagonist) used the word Yep all the time, like what he was telling us was so unbelievable. Honestly, if I'd had this on Kindle, I would have done a search for the word 'Yep' to see how often it was used.
Also, there were a ton of sentence fragments used to make a point. To me, it's just a junk-filled space where my mom spends way too much time. Working. With the door locked. It's not that doing the sentence fragment thing is always wrong, it actually can be used to good effect. But in this book it was used WAY too often. Like, every single chapter often. (
And, after listening to I, Funny (and its sequel) on audiobook, and reading this, it's obvious that Patterson thinks that characters with disabilities have to be INSPIRATIONAL instead of allowing them to be fully fleshed-out characters with actual human personalities. Maddie had NO personality outside of "being strong despite a debilitating illness." Which is a pity, because there isn't enough disability representation in kids books (or any books, really) so I overlooked it a little bit with Jamie in I, Funny because it's awesome that there's a book with a wheelchair bound protagonist. And it's nice that there is a representation of a girl with a chronic debilitating illness in this book. But....all there is to her character is her illness, despite being the sister and very-best-friend of the first-person protagonist.
The dialog is cringe-worthy bad, which is only more noticeable when the book is being read out loud.
But like I said, my kids loved the book. Because it had robots and fart jokes in it.
dmtcer's review against another edition
5.0
James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein become the dynamic duo. I love this book! It is part graphic novel, part journal, part comedy. Although theirs is not a traditional family, Sammy secretly thinks his parents are pretty cool, and he adores his kid sister, Maddie. Sammy and his second-best-friend, Trip (Harry Hunter Hudson; Triple H) are not the most popular boys in school, and things only get worse when Sammy's mom sends him to school with a humanoid-type robot named "E" (Sammy dubs him "Error" for short). One day "E" disappears and Sammy and Trip need to solve the mystery, along with the help of the other house robots. What a fun, really nice story.
lilyn_g's review
5.0
Robots go Wild is the perfect continuation to the House of Robots series. Patterson and Grabenstein do a great job giving us a very human set of characters, even if half of them have motherboards instead of brains. Both my child and I were able to sink into the story, rooting for E and sneering at SS-10K. And then there’s Maddie. Even though she has little on-page time, this book is really all about Maddie, and the fight to give her something approximating a typical school-kid existence.
I absolutely loved the various chances that Robots Go Wild gave me to discuss deeper issues with the mini-reviewer in a relatable way. As I’ve talked about before, she is battling an illness that gives her the ability to relate to Maddie. Some of her fears and questions get brought up during these books as they happen to Maddie, and give us a chance to reassure her without supposedly talking about her. All the robots, even Drone Malone, got a bit more than introductory page-time in this book. The ending had us both on edge and then whooping. It was an epic, last-minute ending, and E is probably the absolute coolest robot in existence.
This is definitely a book you need to pick up – though if you haven’t read the first one yet – I would definitely start with that one. It’s a highly entertaining book for children and adults to enjoy with a positive message.
I absolutely loved the various chances that Robots Go Wild gave me to discuss deeper issues with the mini-reviewer in a relatable way. As I’ve talked about before, she is battling an illness that gives her the ability to relate to Maddie. Some of her fears and questions get brought up during these books as they happen to Maddie, and give us a chance to reassure her without supposedly talking about her. All the robots, even Drone Malone, got a bit more than introductory page-time in this book. The ending had us both on edge and then whooping. It was an epic, last-minute ending, and E is probably the absolute coolest robot in existence.
This is definitely a book you need to pick up – though if you haven’t read the first one yet – I would definitely start with that one. It’s a highly entertaining book for children and adults to enjoy with a positive message.
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