Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. Ugh.This may well call for... eye contact!(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)
Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published May 5, 2026 by Tor Books.
Starts off a bit slow, because murderbot is a bit of a complainer, then gets going with the rescuing of humans, so really more rescuebot than murderbot, then the mayhem, so yeah, ok, murderbot with a mix of aggravatedassaultbot. Basically standard murderbot, which works for me.
I think this was a weaker book compared to the previous. Lots of negative emotions, constant travel, a bunch of new characters that came quickly and then disappeard again. Just as similar experience as a day long trip to the mall that leaves you exhausted.
The end came somewhat abruptly, almost as if the author lost her energy and just wanted to end the book quickly.
Fun read, mall adventure with all new characters mostly. I love the alien artifact, construct relationships, and planet hazards of other books in the series and it was light on all three. Expands the universe and the corp dynamics of the CR.
