All Systems Red - Martha Wells

5/5 ⭐

This was everything I wanted and more. I am relatively new to sci-fi and am always a little hesitant to start a new book for fear of not liking it because it ends up being very science and math-heavy.

But whoa, when I tell you I fell in love with Murderbot and their just general attitude toward most things, I did. I very much enjoyed seeing things through their eyes and how they responded to the others and how they essentially developed their own personality without it having been impacted from years of childhood.

Now they say they really don’t know who they are, they are still figuring it out and that’s only fair. How many of us know who we are even after living by our own prerogative?

I ended up devouring this book in just a couple of hours because I just couldn’t not know what happened next. And if I hadn’t been outside when I finished it I would have screamed at that ending.

It is the only way it could have ended but damn did I want it to go the other way.

So very good. Recommend if you liked ‘A Psalm for the Wild-Built’ but don’t want the exact same story like it again. Anyone looking for some lighter sci-fi or something quick to read, try this one!

9/6/22

*This review was previously posted on my Google Site.

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