I don't read too many novellas because the format is really hard to do well. This book isn't an exception. It's good, sure; but I really want a novel length version of exactly the same story.

The characters are thrust into a situation that is mostly out of their control, and for most of the time they have no idea of the motivations behind the actors causing all the problems they are facing. We only get two sentences ourselves to explain the entire story - it's just not that satisfying in this format.

Perhaps the rest of the series will be able to explore parts of Murder-bots character in more depth. This novella is at least interesting enough to warrant reading the rest, so hopefully I can come back to this review and alter it once I've finished the other parts.