Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the nicer weather. I have a confession to make. I haven’t been reviewing everything I’ve been reading. Recently, I’ve become more selective about what I review. There are a few books I read recently where I didn’t have anything important to say, whether it was good or bad. I merely enjoyed the book, and that was it. I’ve also been pursuing other creative hobbies, which have helped me immensely with my primary creative hobbies. That is why I’ve been a bit delayed in blogging. Fear not, though. I definitely have a bunch of books I fully plan on reviewing soon. Before I get into this review, I highly recommend you check out my review for the first book in the Murderbot Diaries series. Now, it’s time to check out the sequel.

Content Warning: Some Violence, Some Strong Language

A rogue SecUnit is on the loose, and it calls itself MurderBot. The problem is that it doesn’t remember how many it’s killed, or if it caused a massacre that led to its name change. The MurderBot is on a mission to find out. It has a trickier task ahead: pretending to be human. With the help of a research transport ship named ART, MurderBot returns to the original mine where the massacre occurred. Unfortunately, other humans need its help. The MurderBot has no idea what truths it will uncover.

Martha Wells continues to shine in the MurderBot Diaries. I’m going to say something that feels like an insult, but I fully mean it as a compliment in this instance: this book felt longer than it actually was. That, though, is more of a testament to how good Wells is at pacing the action and story. Even with all of the technological jargon being tossed around, I, as a reader, didn’t get lost in that aspect of the novel. The best part of this book was seeing how MurderBot continues to develop and contend with the side effects of free will. I love the MurderBot as a narrator and its strangely relatable personality. I don’t know what it says about me that I relate to a robot with anxiety, but I’m not going to question it. I am still having a lot of fun with this series and highly recommend it if you need something fun and fast-paced to read in a day or weekend. I also highly recommend the TV adaptation, MurderBot, if you were curious about it.