The first longer novella in the muderbot diaries. Murderbot hitches a ride on a ship at the beginning of the book and I loved the interactions between murderbot and ART. Murderbot is planning to investigate a traumatic incident in its past, and takes a job as security for a group of humans who are going to the planet it needs to get to, pretending to be an augmented human instead of a SecUnit.

It's a fun story, but the investigation that was the goal of this book, I don't remember any resolution of that? The whole point in this book is for muderbot to figure out what really happened - it gathers information and then the book loses interest in this entirely? I was so confused. Was it a mcguffin for the story to hang off of? How is murderbot going to develop as a character?

We still have the same basic character traits as the first book, I'm not seeing any development. Murderbot eschews human interaction. Murderbot would prefer to be alone watching tv shows. Murderbot is hyper competent against all the odds -- it can hack all the systems, outwit/defeat all the opponents. I guess that's entertaining a little, but I want more from a book. I guess I'll continue with the next in the series, they're short. I'm hoping to see murderbot progress.