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Exit Strategy by Martha Wells - 4 stars - My Review

Fourth book in the Murderbot series, this story makes connections among the first three books. In this installment, the protagonist SEC Unit reconnects with Dr. Mensah, from book one. Mensah has been abducted by GrayCris Corporation and the SEC Unit must figure out how to rescue her. The SEC Unit is moving along the continuum toward artificial intelligence until it borders on human, though it still resists embracing any human emotions.

I really love the SEC Unit as a main character, with its logic, sardonic sense of humor, and desire to protect humans. As is typical in this series, the first half develops the characters and catches readers up on the backstory, and the second becomes a sequence of action scenes. GrayCris continues its role as villain. For me, the development of the SEC Unit’s character is the reason I continue to read these diaries even though I am not typically a reader of books in a series.

Joy D wrote: "Exit Strategy by Martha Wells - 4 stars - My Review

Fourth book in the Murderbot series, this story makes connections among the first three books. In this installmen..."

I just finished this last week and loved witnessing Murderbot's evolution. Network Effect is next and is the first full length Murderbot book. #6 was published in April but I see three more are listed as Untitled so that's definitely good news for the future.

I have requested Network Effect from my library. I didn't realize it is a full length book, but that is probably a good thing for me. I tend to like books more than novellas. I like the additional depth.