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Valet

A Novel

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Valet

Autor: J.P. Lacrampe
Czyta: Kevin R. Free
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For fans of Kevin Wilson and Andrew Sean Greer, a helper robot and his thirty-five-year-old ward embark on a madcap adventure to save the fate of the family company in this whimsically speculative ode to Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster.

Cy wants nothing more than to be useful, raise his utility score, and receive the next update for his operating system. But that’s easier said than done when he’s tasked with helping his owner’s thirty-five-year-old son “get out of his funk.” Grayson is nothing like his go-getter, CEO sister Charlotte. He didn’t inherit the family robotics company when their dad passed last year, he doesn’t have a master’s degree, and he just can’t seem to figure out the San Francisco dating scene. He’d rather eat synthesized mozzarella sticks and make pottery at his studio, Kilning Time.

When Grayson learns of Charlotte’s plan to sell the company to a tech conglomerate, he panics. It’s not just the family business at stake, it’s all the technology—like Cy—their dad invented over the years. So he does what anyone would do: he steals the flash drive with his father’s most important work stored on it and plans a corporate takeover. If only he knew what that meant.

To make matters worse, a fellow VALET deserts his owner and asks Cy to help him hightail it out of town, Grayson’s first real date—and her dog—keeping showing up at inopportune times, and the behemoth tech company wants this deal closed yesterday. Grayson, Cy, and their trusty golden retriever, Sasha III, must go on the lam until they figure out exactly what to do, and whom to trust.

A hilarious, madcap adventure that is as tender as it is insightful, Valet asks not just what it means to be human, but what it means to be family.
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"Think P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and The Jetsons meet ChatGPT." —Kirkus Reviews
"Normally, a narrator who sounds like a robot is not necessarily a good thing, but here Kevin R. Free combines just the right tones of bright intelligence, undying loyalty, and a megadose of snarky humor to create the voice of Cy, a perfectly helpful android. The upbeat and genial Cy has been assigned to look after the unmotivated, daydreaming son of a highly successful family-run robotics company. When the company is targeted for a hostile buyout, the pair go underground in search of a plan to save the family firm. Along the way, Free revels in giving fun voices to a renegade robot, a group of underachieving neohippies, and an overbearing and always disappointed mother." —Kirkus Reviews
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