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A review by chloefrizzle
System Collapse by Martha Wells
5.0
This is one of the best entries to the Murderbot Diaries series. If you liked Network Effect, you're going to love System Collapse. This novel starts where Network Effect left off. Murderbot and the team are dealing with the fallout of their previous adventure, and discovering a new adventure (and many many problems) along the way.
It has everything that you've loved about Murderbot books in the past: pessimism and sarcasm, our bot trying to deal with its anxiety and trauma, deadly fights, a love of media pervading the plot, and musings on what it means to be human.
The strength of this book is in how it shows Murderbot dealing with its emotional issues. For many books of this series, Murderbot has been avoiding doing just that. In this episode, we start to get some real forward momentum.
It also avoided the common pitfall of this series by narrowing down the cast somewhat. For most of the novel, we only had 3 sidekicks.
Thanks to Netgalley and Tor for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
It has everything that you've loved about Murderbot books in the past: pessimism and sarcasm, our bot trying to deal with its anxiety and trauma, deadly fights, a love of media pervading the plot, and musings on what it means to be human.
The strength of this book is in how it shows Murderbot dealing with its emotional issues. For many books of this series, Murderbot has been avoiding doing just that. In this episode, we start to get some real forward momentum.
It also avoided the common pitfall of this series by narrowing down the cast somewhat. For most of the novel, we only had 3 sidekicks.
Thanks to Netgalley and Tor for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.