All Systems Red
2017 • 90 pages

Ratings1,704

Average rating4.1

15

-Loved Murderbot.
-Liked that the side characters are actually smart & not annoying.
-Good world building. Lot of people complained about it, I personally thought the details described were enough to trigger the brain to create images of the different settings. Not everything has to be spoon fed.
-Didn't like the villains. They seemed creepy when they pulled that shit off at the other side of the planet but later turned out to be a bunch of stupid idiots.
-When it was finally time to turn the action up, the third act disappoints it's very rushed. It's a shame because I enjoyed the book a lot until that point.

A good book, it uses a little more than the first half to build an intriguing mystery, atmosphere & seems to be on track for an exciting showdown which unfortunately never arrives.

July 17, 2020