so far this series is a lot of the same that we already got in book one.
great characters - humans and/or robots/AIs with wonderful personalities
and the over and over repeated plot of fights, hacking, people being kidnapped or running for their lives in other ways -most often trying to not be killed.

i am all for sticking to what’s works if it works for you.

but to me this series feels a lot like the first book slightly differently told over and over again:
murderbot not wanting to care but doing so anyways, getting seriously injured while saving humans and trying to save a lot of people around it, while at the same time bei looked at like a mindless murder maschine by everyone who it didn’t just save or is actively saving.

i keep hoping with how each book ends that well get less of the mindless action and fighting and more of the “murderbot trying to figure out life but is utterly frustrated by everyone round it” since that’s the actual entertaining moments for me.

sadly that’s the one thing that seems to keep getting the short end of the stick and becoming less and less noticeable with each book.


i think that if you love the series so far for the action, fights, flying bullets, and sci-fi talk and hacking? great you get those things.

if you want something different than what already happened in the other books so far? i am not sure how much of that you’re going to find here.