Network Effect by Martha Wells ( Murderbot #5)

Network Effect by Martha Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Long live Murderbot! Our snarky, construct is back in a full length novel and as with the others in the series, Murderbot's inner dialouge is well worth the price of admission.
In Network Effect, Murderbot aka SecUnit is protecting one of Preservation's scientific forays until marauders are persuaded to cease and desist with a little Sec Unit motivation. Upon enetering space, their ship is almost immediately fired upon. What makes the matter even more strange is that it is SecUnit's old friend ART. Something must be wrong, because ART isn't answering and this is just wrong.
Martha Wells is a master of place and time as well as the instinctive knowledge to bring the reader to laughter as well as tears, Network Effect is no different. She weaves storylines together effortlessly and there are a few doosies in NE.
Do yourself a favor and pick these up, read them in order to get the full flavor and enjoy. They are a distinctly guilty pleasure. More please!

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Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ( Murderbot #4)

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Murderbot is such an interesting and unique character. In many ways, the character seems not to trust the idea of a home, probably a result of never really having one. As to identity, Murderbot has more explicit reasons to question its motivations than most - how much is coded in, how much is what it actually wants?

This fourth installment offers a lot more of the good stuff. Murderbot moves through different stations and governments in search of the mystery of it's past while helping it's humans. By the far the best novella so far.

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Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ( Murderbot #3)

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you love a snarky, insecure murderbot. You need to read these book by Martha Wells. Nothing serious here just fun well told stories. In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot continues his investigation into the Greycris Corporation all in an effort to protect his "stupid humans" whom he really cares for. The running interior of thoughts of Murderbot are worth the price of admission.

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Arificial Condition by Martha Wells ( Murderbot #2)

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Murderbot is just fun. I can't really say more than that. These are not hard science but oh so fun.. In Artificial Condition, Murderbot now a "free agent" after leaving his group from All Systems Red , is trying to find out if it really killed 57 people in an earlier incident or if there are other answers. It secure passage to the mining planet where the incident happened on a Bot driven freighter with a great AI named ART.
Upon arrival Murderbot poses as a security consultant to a group of researchers who are having difficulties getting their research released back to them from a corrupt company, and with the help of ART our "hero" must find out what really happened to itself as well as protect his clients from getting killed by the corrupt company.
Good stuff and the conversations between Art and Murderbot are classic.

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All Systems Red by Martha Wells ( Murderbot #1)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this on a lark, and man was it fun. Murderbot is cool! We tend to think of half human/half machine constructs as perfect, unfeeling constructs. Not so for Murderbot. It (since there is no gender) has thoughts, feelings, and even enjoys a good drama series on the entertainment feed.
This is just a novella, but so well done and really make you want to know murderbot more.
In All System's Red. Murderbot is the SecUnit on a exploration survey with a group of scientists when things start going wrong. Murderbot, having hacked it's governor can't be compelled to do anything, but rather chooses to do things which is unique. Conspiracies are afoot and things aren't adding up fortunately Murderbot is there.
Read this!

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Mutation by MIchael McBride ( Unit 51 Book 3)

Mutation by Michael McBride
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thank you to Net Galley for an adavnce reader ebook of this book.
This was the third book in the Unit 51 series following, Suhuman and Forsaken. Is it the last Unit 51 novel? I guess we have to wait and see. For one, I am really hoping it isn't these books were fun. A little fantastic at times but entertaining as all get out and isn't that why we read. To get away from the real world? To many authors today keep interjecting theirn politics, etc, into their works, therefore putting a damper on my enthusuasm to read more of their work.
McBride is pure entertainment. If you like books that just move and have science, archeology, ancient mysteries and some pretty scary creatures. This is the book for you.
A word to the wise though, you really need to start at the beginning with Subhuman. McBride shows a deft hand at moving all the parts and locales while building and growing his characters. What is at stake in Mutation? Nothing less than the end of the world as we know it. From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the rainforrests of Mexico and the ruins of La Venta to an abandoned air force base that is much more than it seems. Monsters, pandemics, and ancient mysteries galore are in these books.
You will love them.

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Forsaken by Michael McBride ( Unit 51 Book 2)

Forsaken by Michael McBride
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I didn't thgink that author McBride could ratchet up the action any higher than he did in Subhuman. I was wrong. Forsaken is a mile a minute thrill ride that takes place in such exotic locales as Teotihuacan, Antartica and the englisf moors. Between shadowy organizations and monsters from your worst nighmares, McBride keeps the storyline from Subhuman moving and evolving. Using ancient myth and our world's greatest mysteries from Stonehenge to the Nazca Drawings to the Great Pyramids in Eygpt to crop circles in the english countryside, this is on heck of a book. But, you really need to read Subhuman first. You will be lost if ou don't.
Next up Mutation Unit 51 #3!

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Subhuman by Michael McBride ( Unit 51 Book 1)

Subhuman by Michael McBride
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really had fun with this. It reminded me of early Rollins. It was hard to put down after all of the scientific things were explained. Interesting, well draw characters. If you love ancient mysteries like Atlantis, the Nazca drawings, the great pyramids, Crop Circles, Stonehenge, etc. You will love this. Great characters with differing pasts and their own secrets make this one to savor.
Looking forward to book 2!

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