MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.25/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you’re a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you’re Murderbot.
Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.
I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
Drastic action it is, then.
MY REVIEW
I keep saying it, but each installment in this series continues to improve in some way or another, and now that Wells has written a full length novel in the series, she’s able to really show how good she is at this on a larger scale, and while I did feel that there were some minor issues, this was really a treat to read and came with some highs and some lows, but nothing that I absolutely hated. Still a good entry that I enjoyed, nonetheless.
The plot was a bit on par of what the novellas have been, though I do think it did expand a bit more but I expected a little bit more from a full length novel. The first half of the book and the last several chapters were a lot more exciting than the middle part was, the middle part felt like the pacing of the story just took a bit of a lull, before it finally started to slowly pick back up, aside from that, I thought that Wells did a good job of making everything intense and exciting. There was plenty of action that I thought was amazing and a little bit of mystery as to what was going on that just had me frothing to read more, to find out just what Murderbot had gotten itself into.
“Because change is terrifying. Choices are terrifying. But having a thing in your head that kills you if you make a mistake is more terrifying.”
The best part about this is obviously Murderbot and his interactions with everyone, and I found that to be top tier as always, had me giggling on many of occasions. Murderbot gets a great deal of development that is going to play a huge role in the rest of the series, but a lot of the other characters didn’t really get much of that and felt more like just people there, I did like a few, but there just wasn’t much growth. I understand that this is Murderbot’s story, so the side characters aren’t going to get near as much as him, but there were times where it just felt like they were there, just for his interactions with them.
Kevin Free continues to do a superb job with narration in this series, by giving Murderbot a soul. This is one of the things that will always be top notch is what he can do with his voices and feelings with each character. I thought this was a good addition to the series, but in the end, it could’ve been a whole lot more than what it was… Murderbot is still my favorite sci-fi character and I can’t wait to see what his next mission entails.
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