The second book of The Murderbot Diaries was finished in only a matter of days! What is going on over here? It feels like Christmas, but no, it’s just a new week and some free time to read, whenever I am unable to play some more Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Murderbot ventures in a journey to uncover the truth of its past—deleted from its memory by the company who built it—and figure out a new purpose in life after escaping from the people who freed it in the frist place.
As it sneaks around from place to place, hacking security systems and trying to go unnoticed by disguising itself as an augmented human, Murderbot will end up inside a ship bot (named ART) with way too much processing power and quite a personality. Thankfully, it’s not too bad, and it’ll aid Murderbot on its quest, against Murderbot’s will, but whatever.
To get to the planet that hides Murderbot’s past, it pretends to be a security consultant for a group of humans. The way this job develops is quite interesting, since it’s doing the same work it did as a SecUnit, except that nothing is forcing it to. How Murderbot comes to terms with that, as well as the revelations behind its pasts, provide some interesting moments on the story.
The action that happens when everything goes wrong, all the world building to the series, and the character ART, the research transport (I don’t want to say what the A stands for) that pretty much becomes Murderbot’s companion (and its worst enemy) throughout this journey, are definitely some great additions to this series, which I quite enjoyed.
These books start to get good right when they are about to end, which is kind of a shame! But well, I guess there are many more books to read for a reason, I already started Rogue Protocol, which is the next one on the list.
Overall, this second book builds on what the first one did, and pretty much improves everything, good stuff.
I actually don’t think I have a lot else to say, it really feels like I’m reading one big book, so these reviews are bound to be kind of short, whatever!
