A murderbot after my own heart.

Everywhere I've gone in the reading communities, fellow scifi/fantasy fans, not-so-really-fans and dabblers have been singing this series praises to anyone who would listen. Now I normally wouldn't touch hype with a ten foot pole, but I did for Brandon Sanderson and TJ Klune and so I decided to dive right in for Martha Wells (plus her fans seemed less like rabid stans and more like ...you know; normal.). So here I am, completely blown over by the first installment of this series.

What's to love in this series

1. A high tech Sapient-Sentient Humanoid robot with gaps in her memory, built to be security, meant to take orders and be around people but there's just one catch she hates interacting with people. And; she doesn't even need to follow orders if she doesn't want to. And one more thing - she is a binge-watcher of entertainment content. Seriously Murderbot, that's an addiction right there, speaking as a former entertainment and content addict..

2. A planet that sounds like a cosmic treasure trove of some hidden horrors and delights and a few teams surveying the lands for their own purposes. Until, something goes wrong.

3. Great elevation of suspense in stages and seeing everything through Murderbot's eyes, the reader slowly comes to the same realizations in real-time.

4. Murderbot has a self-esteem issue. She believes she is a lazy half-focused SecUnit and that she is easily replaceable. She is not. She is so not any of those things.

5. The big resolution of the conflict was reminiscent of something I read recently that was done just as well - the massive corporate coverup in Ironclads, Adrian Tchaikovsky. This one went multiple steps further with boardrooms, lawyers, press junkets and more.

Murderbot. I'm coming for more of your adventures.