Reading Wednesday ON A WEDNESDAY YESSSS

I zoomed through All Systems Red, the first of Martha Wells's Murderbot stories, and enjoyed it as much as I'd hoped I would, which was enough that I've already bought it for half my children. Among other things, I love the *competence* of Murderbot. Competence, suppressed or understated emotions, loyalty/dedication--OMG so my jam.

The action centers around Murderbot, a SecUnit (human-bot composite person created as a security unit) assigned to protect a planetary survey team. Murderbot has no g...