you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Another great detective novella from Martha Wells, of the friendly murderbot, always second-guessing itself. This time the murderbot is trying to find the origins of its decision to erase its controlling governor-module, an accident resulting in many human deaths.

The second book of the series does not disappoint and the witty humour and tight plot continues, keeping the reader engaged and relaxed.

In the book, our protagonist finds another robot friend, almost autonomous, but content with the research and traveling it is doing with the humans. The interactions between murderbot and ART make the basis of most conversations in the book, revealing much about the thinking process and background of both.

Martha Wells shows another time what a great writer she has, and that the Nebula and Hugo prizes were not a fluke.