If you’ve followed me for any length of the time you already know how much I love Murderbot (a hugely insanely big amount). So the fact that I thought System Collapse was SO INCREDIBLY GOOD, will be a surprise to no one. So here goes ;)

System Collapse takes place immediately following Network Effect. I am a little bit confused as to why Fugitive Telemetry is book 6, feels like it should have been 5 and then Network Effect as 6. If we’re going chronologically. But that’s a minor issue and unrelated to this book.

For the beginning part of this book Murderbot keeps making a reference to an event that we, as readers only see as REDACTED. Example: “ART was monitoring me closely because of [redacted].” And it made me lean in and try to read faster because I needed to know what the [redacted] was! This book played a lot with the conflict in Murderbot between what it perceives as it’s inferior organic parts and the machine parts. I just want to give Murderbot a HUGE hug (which I would never do because it does not like physical contact). Murderbot is working through it’s trauma in such a Murderbot way (by refusing to admit that it exists or that it should have any impact on it’s functioning - way too relatable. TT;;; )

Read this if: you LOVE ART and Murderbot’s relationship, want to see what Murderbot does when it feels compromised, want to meet the person who could turn Ratthi’s head, need more Iris rolling her eyes at ART and Murderbot.

Seriously, I feel like I will love anything and everything Murderbot forever. You should all read these ;)