JUST FINISHED ALL SYSTEMS RED (The Murderbot Diaries), by Martha Wells.
My Amazon review:
UTTERLY CHARMING AND UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING!
I think I knew I’d love Murderbot from the moment I read the word “Murderbot.” And then I read the first paragraph and was ineradicably hooked.
I’m already a huge fan of Martha Wells, and she’s one of those authors who just keeps getting better and better. (Who’d have thought I’d like another book as well as the Raksura books? BUT I AM SO GLAD!)
This is a refreshingly frank, only partly human, first-person protagonist, up to its armored joints in a violent, complex, deeply stressful situation. It manages–by dint of wry humor, confessional asides, and old familiar habits (like watching a lot of entertainment media when it should be doing its SecSystem work–to keep us enormously entertained and concerned for the outcome of all characters throughout the story.
I loved it so much! MAY THERE BE MANY MORE!
C.S.E. Cooney 