This book came highly recommended by a good friend whose opinions on stuff I generally trust. I mentioned to them that I needed some books for travelling, and they announced that they loved the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. With a lot of planned transit and transfer time in my life, I grabbed all of the available Murderbot books and loaded them on my Kindle, ready to read.
I didn’t do a whole lot of reading on the flights over. It wasn’t until I was on the train, trying to conserve roaming data, from Rome to Pompei that I finished No Way. I started, and finished, All Systems Red on the flights from Catania to Venice. I know it’s a novella – but reading a book in a single sitting is nearly unheard of for me. I think even Matthew Reilly’s Cobalt Blue took me a couple of sessions.
That I managed/could read it in a single sitting says a lot about the novel. It was punchy, interesting, and pure/hard enough Sci-Fi that I was captivated the whole time. I found it very interesting that I assigned a gender to Murderbot before I started reading the book. I wonder if that had something to do with the person who recommended it to me.
I’m moving on to Artificial Condition (the second Murderbot Diaries novel) next.
Quite a few stars out of a few more stars.