Exit Strategy

By Martha Wells,

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Book description

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?

Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Exit Strategy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Aside from not being an engineered professional killer addicted to soap operas, I really related to Martha Wells’s Murderbot.

My head does not follow the centreline of “normal people,” and Martha Wells delivers an anti-hero who resonates superbly. I was utterly sucked into Murderbot’s struggle to reconcile an internal conflict between off-centre emotional responses and the expectations of those “normal people” and never falling back into the cop-out of “fixing” Murderbot to be “normal.” Oh, and it's a cracking good story, as well.

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