Jeff
A bit of an odd duck in the Murderbot diaries, as it takes place out-of-order of the otherwise normal chronology of the books. The plot this time returns to Detective Murderbot, which is nice, but unfortunately its Det. MB investigating something he had nothing to do with. Proceeds like most other detective stories, with clue finding, a couple of tense moments where the bad guy seems like they could win, and then a happy resolution at the end.
It could practically be Murderbot Noir.
The book is technically very good, and the plot pacing issues some of the past books have faced isn't present here, but I just didn't find this particular story the most interesting. There are no issues with prose, characters, or delivery, its just very formula murder mystery, complete with the mayor/chief of police/security head/whatever imposing artificial limitations on our enterprising detective.
A bit of an odd duck in the Murderbot diaries, as it takes place out-of-order of the otherwise normal chronology of the books. The plot this time returns to Detective Murderbot, which is nice, but unfortunately its Det. MB investigating something he had nothing to do with. Proceeds like most other detective stories, with clue finding, a couple of tense moments where the bad guy seems like they could win, and then a happy resolution at the end.
It could practically be Murderbot Noir.
The book is technically very good, and the plot pacing issues some of the past books have faced isn't present here, but I just didn't find this particular story the most interesting. There are no issues with prose, characters, or delivery, its just very formula murder mystery, complete with the mayor/chief of police/security head/whatever imposing artificial limitations on our enterprising detective.