![]() It feels highly improbable given the futuristic world this is and the unliklihood that a single system like murderbot just has so much access to hack just about every tech. Just like my complaint with the prior book, Murderbot has these hacking abilities that feel like they are just a umbrella system of Deus Ex tools to resolve plot easily and quickly. It still suffers from a frequent use of Deus Ex Machina plot devices though. It was action packed, murderbot is still his amazingly quirky self and it's cool to see characters return and a plot coming together. It's very action packed and starts putting the plot together again with the same character of book 1. It's a continuation to what feels like the final chapters finally to a full novel and teases you to get book two. This next part of the series isn't a complete book as it, again like I said previously, feels like the next chapters of the prior book. Luckily I got the set of them all at a super discounted rate so at the discount it equals to a little above the price of a normal book. I am not a fan of this type of business model of breaking up a book like this and disguising it as seperate novellas. ![]() This book here is just the next chapters of the prior book as it immediately continues immediately after the events of the previous book. This is a single book that has been cut up into several parts. ![]()
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