The Murderbot Diaries is pretty reliable as entertainment. This one rolls along nicely, but it might have been a bit better as a novella like the others. We get a lot of description of frenetic battles, with Murderbot processing a lot of inputs at once. It's very true to the character but gets tiring to read after awhile. Murderbot was kind of growing up over the last four books, but at least the pace of that development is slowing--seems like fans really enjoy the petulant adolescent thing. If you're waiting for him to grow out of that you might get tired of this series after awhile. I wish that some of his clients were more memorable--I have trouble keeping them straight in the stories. But I crack on it too much--it's fine entertainment.
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