Sci-fi was way higher up in my reading preferences in college, but I haven’t been able to escape this series. It probably doesn’t help my case that I’m following the author directly on social media, and most of my mutuals are obsessed with this series. I’d been in a reading slump for most of January and decided maybe a short, sci-fi novel was exactly what I needed to dive back into my TBR pile. While it didn’t alleviate my reading slump, I did manage to finish this in one sitting and that accomplishment alone was a win for me. 

When I checked this book out from the library even the circulation clerk couldn’t help but start raving about how much they loved this series. I was genuinely encouraged by their enthusiastic support of my selection, and love seeing another book lover get so excited over their favorite reads. I knew going into this that it was about a robot who called themselves Murderbot who had worked around their programming, and began a hyperfixation on binging tv dramas and consuming other types of very human media. 

I guess what I didn’t fully expect was for there to be a completely fleshed out plot, full of danger, misunderstandings, prejudices, and well – murder. That was naive of me, but like I said, I went into this expecting it to be more of a cozy sci-fi where we just chilled with this robot as he explored human media. While that was kind of true, I definitely wouldn’t categorize this novel as cozy. There was a lot of suspense and mystery packed into those one hundred and forty something pages that kept me engaged the entire time. 

I honestly can’t imagine what our Murderbot will get up to in the next novel, but since all my mutuals seem to rave about this series (and we can’t forget the circulation clerk) I think I’m going to have to keep reading to find out.