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The book is written in a very interesting way. Ivy's voice is very child-like, with lots of run-on sentences and simplistic grammar, which suggests that she is still a relatively young android, which is also combined with a very formal, literal way of speaking that seems to be common to most depictions of AIs and androids. Any new words that Ivy has learned are italicised and dropped into the sentences; reading through it almost reminds me of those automated messages that you get while waiting for a call. Her speech isn't marked by speech marks, but instead is in bold lettering, which is certainly a little odd, but interesting nonetheless. The chapter breaks occur when Ivy is either turned off or powers herself down. When she starts feeling human emotions, her speech starts stuttering and she has to send an error message to Jenson & Jenson. It's an interesting and unique way of depicting how a machine developing sentience may work.