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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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*3.5 stars
Taking off right where Network Effect left off, Murderbot must once again save their humans, this time from the greedy Barish-Estranza corporation intent on exploiting the colonists and tricking them into indentured servitude.
Not only must Murderbot fight against the corporation and the alien-contaminated bots left on the planet, but also against its own leftover trauma. Faced with nightmares and memory gaps, Murderbot worries their lapses will harm the crew, leaving them feeling more helpless and human than ever before.
Although I was glad to be back with Murderbot and the crew, I was a little disappointed with System Collapse. It feels like it wanted to tell a novella length story in a novel-length format. It wasn't until at least halfway through the book that the plot really picked up and I was interested in what was going on.
My favorite parts, as always, were Murderbot's internal dialogue and its complex feelings towards its human crew. And their interactions with ART, of course! I just wish there had been more dialogue and conversations. We get hints that Murderbot isn't mentally well, and I wished we'd spent more time exploring that.
If you're a big Murderbot fan, I'd still suggest picking up this book. It's fun to be back with favorite characters and learn what happened after the events of the last novel. I just hope the next book has a more interesting plot and digs down into character development.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Tordotcom for the digital arc. All opinions are my own.
Taking off right where Network Effect left off, Murderbot must once again save their humans, this time from the greedy Barish-Estranza corporation intent on exploiting the colonists and tricking them into indentured servitude.
Not only must Murderbot fight against the corporation and the alien-contaminated bots left on the planet, but also against its own leftover trauma. Faced with nightmares and memory gaps, Murderbot worries their lapses will harm the crew, leaving them feeling more helpless and human than ever before.
Although I was glad to be back with Murderbot and the crew, I was a little disappointed with System Collapse. It feels like it wanted to tell a novella length story in a novel-length format. It wasn't until at least halfway through the book that the plot really picked up and I was interested in what was going on.
My favorite parts, as always, were Murderbot's internal dialogue and its complex feelings towards its human crew. And their interactions with ART, of course! I just wish there had been more dialogue and conversations. We get hints that Murderbot isn't mentally well, and I wished we'd spent more time exploring that.
If you're a big Murderbot fan, I'd still suggest picking up this book. It's fun to be back with favorite characters and learn what happened after the events of the last novel. I just hope the next book has a more interesting plot and digs down into character development.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Tordotcom for the digital arc. All opinions are my own.
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Reading Progress
November 23, 2022
– Shelved as:
tbr-2023-to-be-released
November 23, 2022
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October 27, 2023
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Started Reading
November 3, 2023
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Finished Reading
I think the balance of interaction between murderbot/ART/and it's humans is also so missing so the slowness of the plot is really hitting me.
Hopefully I am about to reach the part where it picks up lol.