Network Effect

Martha Wells
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Network Effect

imnotsusan
3/7/2022
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I was a little ambivalent about the novellas, but man, I really did not enjoy this novel. The idea of a snarky, self-aware robot is fine, but it doesn't make up for the clumky executio of the book (and really, teh entire series). This felt like if someone made a bootleg video game based loosely on Ancillary Justice, and then tried to write fanfiction based on the video game. If you really like protracted action scenes, don't mind convoluted plots, aren't overly worried about worldbuilding, and can tolerate the same joke playing on repeat (we get it, the robot would rather watch tv than talk to humans), then maybe you'd like this book better than I did.