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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 >

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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 >

April 28, 2021

REVIEW: Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries 6) by Martha Wells

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

The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one ... more >

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December 23, 2020

What Janine is Reading: Two Books

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Android / Fantasy / Hong Kong based world / Jade Saga series / mafia / novella / POC / POC author / Reading lists / Science Fiction / The Murderbot Diaries / Wuxia9 Comments

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells This novella launched Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series. These books have been raved about both here and at other review sites, my social media feeds, and by one of my real life friends. I’m late to the ... more >

May 18, 2020

REVIEW: Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, Book 5) by Martha Wells

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / The Murderbot Diaries12 Comments

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all ... more >

October 10, 2018

REVIEW: Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries Series, Book 4 by Martha Wells

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArtificial Intelligence / futuristic / novella / robots / Sci-fi / The Murderbot Diaries12 Comments

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Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading ... more >

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