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#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 (another) October #TBRTarot “Choose a Book… that is less than 200 pages.” I‘m really enjoying this series. And I can sooo identify with Murderbot. He wants to have as little to do with humans as possible and all he wants to do is watch his soap operas. I just want to hang out with my kitties and listen to audiobooks. Recommended.

This is the 3rd book in the Murderbot Diaries series. While they are short books, there is a lot packed into them, both in action and lessons. I really enjoyed the character of Miki and how 'she' affected Murderbot, given the differences in personalities, roles and how they were treated by humans. While the first one in the series is still my favorite, I will continue reading them as I am enjoying Murderbot's adventures and growth. 4/5 stars

Trucking right along with this series. It feels like bingeing a TV series and also like it should be one big book instead of a bunch of short ones. I love the commentary Wells is making about what makes someone "human" (despite the misuse of "laid" as the past tense of "lie" (i.e., without a direct object) twice in this book...one of my pet peeves).

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Miki!!!!!

I was pretty sure this reread in particular couldn't hit the same as it did the first time for two reasons that would be major spoilers to include here. I was right.
The burgeoning emotional journey Murderbot is on continues at a believable pace for a being coming to grips with a pretty fraught existence: 1/3

And that doesn't make it any less creepy!

Miki. 🥹

This is a very easy read (listen) with a Murderbot aka rogue security android becoming more and more a very decent human #told_by_a_woman #serieslove2024

This continues to have a very interesting plot but still lacks any distinguishable human characters. I am very aware this is deliberately done but it's hard to be interested in the characters when they are cardboard cutouts compared to Murderbot.

At least the author stopped beating us over the head with “Murderbot just wants to watch their soaps and has social anxiety“

#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor - A chapter a day.
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis - Reading before bed.
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter

Progress:

This felt like a very slow reading week, even though I finished all my due chapters of ASOS. I hope next week I'll dive back into Murderbot (I'm a little bit behind on my reading challenge)

The 3rd installment wasn‘t my favorite to date, but it was definitely a lot of fun! And I found myself marveling that Wells was able to once again draw me in and get me immediately invested in a new cast of characters while still advancing Murderbot‘s main storyline all in the span of a short novella.

I‘m really enjoying these, I did think the ending was really sudden on this 1 though. #serieslove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Dinner was at my favorite place, having some super yummy chicken hibachi! 😋💕

I just finished this Murderbot book today, and I'm jumping into the next one tonight! I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this series so far! 🤖

Flew through this one, even though it‘s an audiobook and I usually only listen to them while driving. It was a reread and it didn‘t take long to remember why I had like this particular instalment, despite the series overall blending together in my memory. If you like snarky, ungendered, cyborg, reluctant killing machines, this is a series for you.

Another action packed installment! Onward Murderbot!

"Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas."
#murderbot #scifi

4/5⭐ The feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels. Wells really knows how to use the novella length to maximum effect. #doublespin

Another fantastic installment in the Murderbot diaries.

I absolutely love this series. I want to hurry up and read them all, and at the same time, go slow to savor and make it last. #readerdilemmas

The Murderbot series continues to delight me with this entry following our protagonist through a nearly-abandoned station seeking answers about the past.

Amid the ensuing mayhem, some questions are answered while more are raised, and Murderbot's interactions with humans continue to challenge their worldview.

Looking forward to getting my hands on the next volume, as always!

Love these reads between those “big” book reads. You have to love these Murderbot Diaries. Loved Miki, sad he had to go.

Another good installment in the #MurderbotDiaries #Series I didn‘t enjoy this one as much as the other two but it was still very good. Perhaps it was because it has been so long since I read the others?

Third in the series, this one finds Murderbot crossing paths with Miki, an innocent, trusting human-like robot, while he continues investigating GrayCris. Miki and her human companion are this volume's contribution to the wonderful array of characters Wells is creating for us in this series. This was another good adventure.

Listening to these while I do all of my little tasks is so enjoyable

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that‘s how they treated it.
I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.

Oh Murderbot.
When GrayCris, the company who threatened its clients in All Systems Red, makes more noise, Murderbot decides to go investigate one of their other holdings. Posing as a security consultant, Murderbot travels to the plant Milu where GrayCris is beginning operations to get data to shut GrayCris down once and for all.
Finished 2/24/2022

I don't suppose they put that on the logo...

#2022Book98
I didn‘t like this one as much as the first two. The best character from the second book wasn‘t in this one, so the banter between him and the main character left a pretty big hole in the dialogue. And the plot in this one didn‘t feel as original as the first two books.

I'm on the Murderbot train and can't stop won't stop. This was a more action packed installment as Murderbot goes to investigate more about the shady GrayCris company. As usual, our favorite AI gets roped into helping some silly humans not die.
#SeriesRead2022 @TheSpineView

More of the murderbot series! I‘m loving these short pieces- if they were all chapters in a book I‘d go thru them in a minute. I‘m kinda enjoying how I‘m being forced to pace myself tho, and also how the books are basically independent. This universe is so great, and all the characters are so genuine, I can‘t get enough of it.

These just keep getting better. I love the biting humor and self-deprecation as well as the intense action.

#SeriesRead2022 @TheSpineView

This one might be my favorite yet. Murderbot is finally getting some answers, or more like clues I guess, to the mystery of why GrayCris attacked DeltFall in the first book.

New characters, more action, and another great story!

Murderbot is just the best, caring about things despite themself... this was a great vacation read!

This is book 3 in the Murderbot series, and it was a fun listen, though not quite as intriguing as the previous two. I look forward to more in the series! 3.5⭐️

It‘s finally the summer holidays 🙌 and no better way to celebrate than with a smoothie and the third installment of Murderbot in which it gets a little closer to unravelling the mystery, has inconvenient Emotions and, once again, has to rescue humans from their unwise decisions. I ❤️ Murderbot.

I‘m at a work conference in Vegas this week. And that means Rhumbar tonight.
I am sooo loving the Murderbot Diaries.

The third entry in the Murderbot series is as entertaining as the others. A fun series.

Absolutely loving this series, each book just gets better and better

These novellas get better and better. Murderbot is even more sarcastic and the adventure is more exciting and entertaining. Wells is a genius. I‘m going to have to buy copies of all of the novellas so I can reread them, dang it. 😂

Once again, Murderbot‘s efforts to uncover the secret, sordid history of the company that owned them are interrupted by having to rescue some humans in over their heads. What‘s a Murderbot to do?

Murderbot is so freaking relatable, & I love it. Their desire to escape into their media, their aversion to interacting with people. We get some more world building, more reasons to dislike The Company, character growth, & a tease of an ending!🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I love murderbot more than carrot cake (& I really love carrot cake) 🥕 thank goodness this finally came in from the library— even though it came yesterday & I had to WAIT to read it until my family finally left— the third is just as tasty as the first two ❤️ I‘ve already lined up the next installment 🤖

Rogue Protocol/Exit Strategy Murderbot is on the run and investigating its own violent past, the evil GrayCris corporation, and the kidnapping of MB‘s client/guardian Dr. Mensah. Lots of snark, intrigue, shoot-outs and a very amusing storyline that involves Murderbot realizing it is feeling more emotions that it really wants to. https://cannonballread.com/2022/01/rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries-and-exit...

Martha Wells delivered another winner with Rogue Protocol. It could be read as a stand-alone and still enjoyed but I certainly recommend reading as a series. This one continues Murderbot on her quest for justice and evidence. In the process, she meets new “clients” and befriends a robot. Of course, the standout here is her insane sarcasm. Gotta love a non-human that can joke.

This series just keeps getting better and better! Our favorite SecUnit belongs to the group of most endearing non-human characters one can get attached to, and I have Data and The Doctor (why hello Enterprise and Voyager) in that list too. 50 more pages to go and hoping I‘ll finish the book before I turn in for the night.

I forgot how abruptly this one ends! Feels kinda weird. Still fun, though.