A review by bluejayreads
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

5.0

This story was entertaining, irreverant, and a good time all around. I loved "Murderbot" and I really enjoyed the crew it was placed with and its dynamics. I especially enjoyed how Murderbot isn't legally considered a person and doesn't want to be considered one - it was an interesting idea. I also appreciated the way the crew insisted on treating it like a person even though that made it very uncomfortable. The plot itself was interesting, too - a capitalist hellscape universe, an interesting uninhabited planet setting, and a mystery to solve. It worked perfectly fine as a novella, but it could have easily been much longer, and I wish it was. I would have enjoyed spending a significantly longer time in this story with these characters unraveling this mystery. It's kinda like how once you eat one potato chip you want to eat the whole bag - now that I've read this book, I want to devour the entire series.

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