A review by divine529
System Collapse by Martha Wells

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
It's pretty much a given at this point that if there's a new Murderbot book, I'm going to love it. I loved this, but it wasn't an absolute 100% favorite, not because it wasn't fantastic, but because some of the pacing/choices some of the characters made didn't sit right with me. 
That aside, I live and breathe for Murderbot as a character always and seeing It struggle the way it did in this book was a whole thing for me to experience - essentially It's working through it's trauma and is not having a good time. ART is also one of my favorites always and ART and MB's dynamic is everything. 
I love seeing the evolution of the humans' relationships with each other and with the bots throughout the books and it was no different here. 
This book deals a lot with colonization of a specific planet and seeing the politics involved in all of that was so interesting, but also infuriating. 
All in all, another fantastic Murderbot book. 
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