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Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

65 reviews

pacifickat's review against another edition

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adventurous funny inspiring tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

In which Murderbot learns more about trust, friendship, corporate greed, and the philosophical implications of humans creating sentient bots and androids.

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ebp's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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eviethebookworm's review against another edition

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adventurous funny tense medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.5


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wardenred's review

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adventurous funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas.

Why ever did I take such a long break with this series? It's so fun. Granted, this particular installment feels a bit like a side-quest: on one hand, Murderbot is still trying to get more information to help it figure out the Dr. Mensah situation... on the other hand, it's *still* trying to do that. While it already did that in the previous book. I certainly hope the next novella is going to bring more overarching plot development.

That aside, I greatly enjoyed spending more time in this cyberpunk-ish universe and to delve into all the complications of the relationships between its AI and human denizens. Given that we now live in a world where the word "AI" is no longer anything out of a sci-fi novel, some of these themes are feeling more relevant (in vaguely frightening ways). I appreciated seeing Murderbot get a bigger and bigger sense of independent selfhood, found myself cackling more than one at its deadpan narration, and found it only a little unsettling just how damn much I relate to its experiences with human interactions. Seriously. Some of its thoughts about humans had me withdrawing from the book so I could have an emotion.

Kind of found myself missing ART from the previous book. Milo wasn't anywhere nearly as entertaining and honestly more than a little unsettling, but I suspect I was mean to be unsettled by this bot's whole deal. Also, the action was really fun, but mostly, I was here for the character growth and the interactions, and I got plenty of that. Definitely going to pick up the next book much sooner!

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spinesinaline's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75


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probablytoolate's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0


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black_cat_iiix's review

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adventurous funny sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75


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cryosphinx's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

My working theory is that each Murderbot is going to focus on a different human emotion more than others and this one is about the power of friendship. The beginning didn't start as punchy as the previous two but I liked the ending more since it has more of a gut punch with higher stakes happening compared to the others. Wells again does a good job of containing a complete stand alone story in a novella format but furthers development of Murderbot.

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huntress's review

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adventurous challenging emotional funny tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5


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maddie_can_read's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Really loving this series so far. Murderbot is so wonderfully written, it's great watching them develop over the books and see how they're learning more about themselves and what they want to do with their free-will.

Really liked the interaction between Murderbot and another robot character who has had a very different life experience than them. 
Like that the books are connecting and loved what the ending of this one is foreshadowing.

The only thing I found with this book in the series that I didn't with the others is that I had a harder time visualizing what was happening/ where the characters were. But also my mind's eye is not super strong.
I couldn't quite picture what was happening on the planet they were on, so it took me out of the action scenes a bit.


Love that murderbot has given themselves a name but it's private. Very sad ending but I accidentally spoiled it for myself, don't look up anything on the wiki 😔

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