In this latest installment, Murderbot has been through something awful and needs to recharge but can't. It's constantly worried it's going to just shut down but bad things it has to fix won't stop happening. It just has to push through, but the more it does, the more it knows it's teetering on the edge of collapse. And yet, the humans just won't stop getting themselves in bad situations! And the Corporation has come! And it has to just do it all even though it's well past the point of working on fumes.
While I was reading this, I was all, "Same! Same!" It's a very post pandemic book while not being about that at all. But Murderbot gets me. And I get it. This book feels very 2023, even though it's not remotely about an actual pandemic. But it very much speaks to this current moment.
I've been in a major reading funk but nothing gets me reading like Murderbot! I wish there were 100 more Murderbot books and I could just read nothing but Murderbot for the rest of the year!
I don't want to give any of the plot away but I will just say this book takes place directly after #5, even though it's #7 in the series.
This book is published by Tordotcom, a division of Macmillan, my employer.
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