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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

Start date: March 1, 2021

Finish date: May 31, 2021

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Jun 19, 2019 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: menu-reading-is-served, planned

As sweet one-liners go, this one's perfect! Q: As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure. (c) ...more

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Jan 26, 2020 Tobey rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-read, popsugar-2020, 2020, afb

Since I can't give half stars, giving it 3 though this is a strong 3.5 for me. I think maybe it wasn't long enough for me to get into so I wasn't head over heels in love with it but bit, I sure do want to know what's going to happen to MurderBot so luckily Book 2 is coming my way soon. ...more

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Feb 17, 2020 Tanya Patrice rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novella

A character centered novel - where the main character is a SecUnit who hacked his government issued module, so that he no longer has to receive directive from them. He refers to himself as Murderbot and loves to watch TV ... while of course, protecting himself and his human charges from harm.

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Mar 05, 2021 Rosemary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this and raced through it. I just wish the rest of the series wasn't so crazily expensive for a set of novellas. ...more

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Nov 04, 2019 Ann rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019, rws-fall-19

WELL. That was not what I expected from a title that contained “Murderbot”... I honestly thought it was going to be some gritty sci-fi-noir. Instead it was a lightning fast adventure with wit and humor and more than a little YES MURDERBOT I RELATE.
Basically, Murderbot is a security cyborg that hacked its system and instead of going actual Murderbot, it binge-watches trashy TV. And then it has to help some humans and goddamn it, Sanctuary Moon was just getting good.
It’s a pretty much perfect nove ...more

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