Great addition to the series. ( )

Really very well done. It's difficult to write a good fight scene. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the master as far as I am concerned, but the fight scenes in this are very good indeed. The personalities of the characters are very well drawn even considering the book is so short. There's a good economy in the writing which is able to get the most basic personality traits across quickly and completely. This is the third in series but the first I've read so I don't know if I'm missing a lot or not, but this is good enough to reserve the other two books. Both have a considerable waiting list from the BPL. ( )

Um, what the heck is that ending Martha??? You can't just do that to me and then walk away! ( )

Love, love, love the series.

When you pick up the first, All Systems Read, be prepared that you will want to immediately read the second and third ones. Since they are novellas, you will burn through them quickly, they are that good! ( )

Murderbot is headed to an abandoned planet, a failed terraform project by the same corporation that tried to kill it in book one, to collect data on what the corporation is really up to. It thinks it’s stowed on an unmanned cargo shuttle, but unfortunately there are soft humans on board, as well as a companion robot that is too cute for Murderbot’s taste. Sneaking around behind the humans’ backs shouldn’t be too hard…as long as nothing on the planet is trying to harm them…

Extremely enjoyable while I was reading it, as usual, but did feel a bit same-y. All of the nice human characters start to blend together, while the bots are unique and complicated, which is a fun reversal. This book is particularly introspective since Murderbot is trying to hide from the humans, but it doesn’t have a lot of time to process its emotions at the end so I’m looking forward to the next book. ( )