Nook & Cranny reviewed Artificial condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Gripping Read
5 stars
Enjoyed it a lot.
softcover, 224 pages
Portuguese language
Published 2025 by Editora Aleph.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
Enjoyed it a lot.
Abgesehen von forcierter geschlechtergerechter Sprache weiterhin in Ordnung.
about a year since I read the first book, and a TV show in between it was time to pick up murderbot again. took me a bit of time to get into it, but once I was the book was finished in the day. enjoyed being back in murderbots head, the interactions with ART are great. just wished the climax would have been drawn out a little longer!
This was also very enjoyable, but not as exciting or novel as the first installment. I feel like the author is putting pieces into place for something larger, and I'm interested to see if ART returns and how their relationship develops.
if this book had a subtitle, it should be "a robot's guide to masking" or something along those lines.
the parallels between Eden and autism seem even more overt than they were in ASR. I wasn't sure if I was correctly reading between the lines in ASR, but very little twixt-line reading is needed for this one.
Murderbot is such a fun character. Never thought a construct could be so relatable but it’s just the cutest. I love when it gets bewildered by humans.