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May 5, 2026

REVIEW: Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries 8) by Martha Wells

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries13 Comments

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Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch ... more >

April 8, 2026

REVIEW: Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArtificial Intelligence / Contemporary / digital technology / Dystopia / Fiction / surveillance / tech / textingNo Comments

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This compulsively readable novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat messages, TED Talks, bot trainings, and more, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored presents an all too plausible near future in ... more >

April 9, 2024

REVIEW: Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / dark humor / dystopian / near-future / scifi / thriller / War / MilitaryComments Off on REVIEW: Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off ... more >

Image of a security unit/robot in a humanoid shape crouching in wait on an alien planet in a kind of jungle
November 14, 2023

REVIEW: System Collapse by Martha Wells

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / colonization / corporation / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries9 Comments

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot ... more >

October 2, 2023

REVIEW: The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie

JayneBook Reviews / DNF ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / con-artist / First-Person / hacker / lesbian heroine / LGBTQIA characters / Sci-fi / space opera / spaceshipComments Off on REVIEW: The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie

A hotheaded hacker must outwit the AI at the heart of a rogue warship–turned–penal colony if she and her crew of con women want to escape with their lives in this electrifying sci-fi thriller from the acclaimed author of Bonds of Brass. Murdock has always believed in Hark, the woman ... more >

June 29, 2022

What Janine is Reading: April and May of 2022

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews / C- Reviews / DNF ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / clergy / elves / Fantasy / far future / goblins / grief / investigation / kidnapped heroine / LGBTQIAP+ / miscarriage / mixed loyalties / murder mystery / pregnancy / princess / Reading lists / spaceship / spousal abuse / steampunk11 Comments

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison I was a huge fan of The Goblin Emperor but not as keen on The Witness for the Dead, the first book in the spinoff Cemeteries of Amalo series about detective/priest/medium-of-sorts Thara Celehar. Hope springs eternal, though, so I requested book two in ... more >

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