A review by jjwilbourne
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

adventurous emotional funny

4.0

It’s MurderBot 4, baby!

Now that MurderBot knows the truth of GrayCris’s transgressions, it must return to save his original team and deliver the truth.

This series continues to be humorous, full of action, and still manages to touch your heart in just over 100 pages. While still episodic in nature, the series did break a bit of the repetition when we see our SecUnit protagonist take a turn—returning to the crew we met in the first installment to help them out.

The story feels like it has concluded a narrative arc that was established in the first entry, but there have been more installments added to the series, and I’m curious to see how MurderBot continues to evolve now that it has found a sense of belonging.