The return of MurderbART
Mar. 22nd, 2023 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaileI had forgotten how much I liked Network Effect!
Some of it might just be because I really dig the novella length for Murderbot’s wacky escapades, and having one random novel in there sort of sticks out weirdly from a series that is otherwise, so far, all novellas. I almost didn’t want to like it as much as I liked the novellas and I was a little surprised that I had given it five stars on the first read, especially given that I had only given all the novellas four stars. This was in the pre-vaccine part of the pandemic and I guess I wasn’t forming memories super well, lol.
Anyway, I started rereading it before bed and the next thing I knew I’d read the first hundred pages and it was super late. Then I did the same thing the next night. Then I blew off going for a walk on the nicest afternoon of the week to finish it (whoops). This one is riveting. There are so many factions! So much drama! An incredibly angry ART! Creepy mind control space aliens shit! Also more SecUnits, including a second killware version of Murderbot, who, among other shenanigans, increases Murderbot’s ability to waste time arguing with itself by a lot. I had totally forgotten the plot somehow but it was a really fun and action-packed space adventure with lots of twists and things not being as they initially seem and all that good stuff, and I was on tenterhooks the whole time.
Some of it might just be because I really dig the novella length for Murderbot’s wacky escapades, and having one random novel in there sort of sticks out weirdly from a series that is otherwise, so far, all novellas. I almost didn’t want to like it as much as I liked the novellas and I was a little surprised that I had given it five stars on the first read, especially given that I had only given all the novellas four stars. This was in the pre-vaccine part of the pandemic and I guess I wasn’t forming memories super well, lol.
Anyway, I started rereading it before bed and the next thing I knew I’d read the first hundred pages and it was super late. Then I did the same thing the next night. Then I blew off going for a walk on the nicest afternoon of the week to finish it (whoops). This one is riveting. There are so many factions! So much drama! An incredibly angry ART! Creepy mind control space aliens shit! Also more SecUnits, including a second killware version of Murderbot, who, among other shenanigans, increases Murderbot’s ability to waste time arguing with itself by a lot. I had totally forgotten the plot somehow but it was a really fun and action-packed space adventure with lots of twists and things not being as they initially seem and all that good stuff, and I was on tenterhooks the whole time.