Platform Decay is book 8 of Martha Wells’ Murderbot series. It picks up with SecUnit (aka Murderbot) attempting to rescue Dr. Mensa’s family after they were kidnapped by Barish-Estranza Corporation.
Since it’s part of a series, you definitely should be reading the first 7 books, which follow SecUnit/Murderbot as he attempts to get by without being caught as a SecUnit who hacked its governor module. Each book covers a different adventure, but each one follows SecUnit as he tries to live his best life and become his own person, despite being an android.
It’s honestly really funny if you get sarcasm, as SecUnit narrates what is happening with dry humor and sarcasm, while being completely realistic in his ability to pull off some of the shit he gets involved with. He also has to navigate feeling emotions really for the first time after becoming part of a human community and an unofficial bodyguard (sometimes official) of his favorite human and her family.
I personally love reading books that have interesting points of view. Reading something from the point of view of someone who isn’t human and therefore doesn’t think like a human is always a good time. SecUnit, while human-shaped, thinks more like a sentient computer and regularly thinks humans are stupid and emotional, before it does something stupid and emotional itself.
Over the course of the 8 books, you see SecUnit really come into his own. Apple TV has the show Murderbot, which is based on the first book in the series thus far. I watched the show first, and now I read the books entirely in the voices of the characters from the show.
If you love sci-fi, you definitely should read this series. I put it up there as one of my top book series.
5 out of 5 stars!
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