This is a book you will love if you love Murderbot, which I assume you do, because otherwise why are you reading book two? Murderbot goes places, meets people (both human and construct) and does stuff, but my questions is, what is it about? Because I feel like it is about something, but what? What's the theme?

Maybe the theme is about extending trust against the possibility of betrayal. At one point, Murderbot points out to another construct that they can never really be friends, since a human could always order either of them to betray the other. Then there is the title, Artificial Conditions, which is directly referenced in the book: A character says "fear [is] an artificial condition. It’s imposed from the outside. So it’s possible to fight it. " (In the context spoken, Murderbot thinks, reasonably, that this is terrible advice.)

So perhaps this is about Murderbot confronting fears; fears of its past, fears of letting someone get close, fears of being responsible for humans' safety again. Then again, maybe this title was selected by the editor and means nothing.

Unrelated (I think?) there's also a great moment where Murderbot gets past its contempt for other constructs, ComfortUnits/sexbots. It's not called out in text, but Murderbot goes from referring to them exclusively as sexbots, to referring to them as ComfortUnits, which although I have no real idea how they think of themselves, but it seems like the sort of minimal effort to be polite one puts into interacting with peers.