System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Martha Wells
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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Martha Wells
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast. Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.
So I really want to like this one as much as the others, but I do feel like the full-size novels are a bit less good than the novellas so far, and this one is the same. There's a good 50 pages or so of exploring an area where there's a lot of technical terms used, a lot of observation, and not much happens. I feel like it could have been a novella, cut down on those 50 pages, and been a faster read which is partially why the novellas are so good... I also wish there'd be a recap at the start of each book with maybe a glossary of characters/names.
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