Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries

I read books 1,2 and this one being book 3. i stopped on page 155 of 160 to write this review, as i was getting too dispointed with the flaws in the narrative (yes, i know this is sci fi and i like sci fi alot) - here is the so called last straw... the passengers were not wearing suits while the bot tore from outside (vacume of space) thru several hatches until got into where humans were, and the humans did not die instantly? Book 1 was very good and showed how promissing the author is. But by book 3 I was regrettably disapointed. The over arching issue is that the hero (secunit) shows lots of human emotions and mental state (like fear and panic) yet the author spends no cycles going deep into why these models of human like emotions had developed. Variation on this issue is all over the story. One last request - please stop using the phrase backburnered it so many times, it gets stale. I think the auther has some promissing ideas and stories, but need some techi imaginative help.

It's a Murderbot story A pretty short one, really a novelette or novella maybe. It has lots of the usual Murderbot internal grouching about how it somehow always ends up doing things to help all these stupid humans that it totally doesn't care about. There's a touching story about a bot who has always been treated kindly by humans, and Murderbot's total lack of any upsetting feelings about that. Some hints of what things might be like outside the corporate dystopia worlds. Some advancement of the plot to gather evidence against the particular dystopian corporation Murderbot most dislikes. Lots of combat and security logistics. Not bad, not stellar enough for five stars. But a quick and Murderboty read.

This was the first Murderbot entry I was disappointed in. This novella feels like a cash grab. Evil company is bad and did evil thing exactly as expected. No mystery or depth, nothing new period