Artificial Conditionby Kevin R. Free (narrator), Martha Wells
Rating: ★★★½
isbn: 9781501977237
Series: The Murderbot Diaries #2
Publication Date: May 8, 2018
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." 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 vessel 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.
Ok, so I didn’t enjoy this one quite as much as All Systems Red; there wasn’t enough action and the start of the book, when it’s just murderbot and ART left me flat. I didn’t see the appeal of ART at all, in fact, until Murderbot landed on whatever-it-was (space settings = blah blah blah) and started interacting with people. Everything picked up a bit after that, and I enjoyed it enough that I finished it up after I got home (usually Audiobooks are car-only distractions from road rage for me).
I’ve stared the third one on this morning’s drive.