![]() ![]() And for longtime students of the many (mostly sarcastic or mildly annoyed) moods of Murderbot, this will be a satisfying return to some fan-favorite characters. Although not every relationship is explained to its fullest, the book contains everything readers need to know about Murderbot and its team. After all, Network Effect is a book based in humor as much as it is in action. The result is not for the overly squeamish, but it is also gory within reason. ![]() Wells’ fight scenes are kinetic and tactical, juxtaposing visceral descriptions of Murderbot’s organic parts sloughing off with occasionally balletic fight sequences between Murderbot, its drones and whatever targets it happens to be facing off against. If it is, it’s a book on philosophy wrapped in the perfect space opera, full of mysterious alien remnants, thrilling firefights inside of sentient space ships and political and corporate intrigue. At others, it’s the feeling of intruding on someone as they try to understand exactly how to relate to their fellow sentient beings-and often fail. The result is, at times, laugh-out-loud insights into human behavior. Murderbot’s sarcastic, adolescent humor suffuses the book, giving readers the distinct feeling of reading real-time logs directly off Murderbot’s strange, twisted core processor. ![]()
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