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Rogue Protocol

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 3

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Rogue Protocol

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
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The third thrilling book in the increasingly popular Murderbot Diaries, which began with All Systems Red.

Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. 

And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. 

Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a humanlike android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk. 

Listen to Rogue Protocol and find out why Hugo Award winner Ann Leckie wrote, "I love Murderbot!"

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Fantastic read. Wish all three books were lumped into one purchase as they are only 3 hours long each but great reads nonetheless.

Great story. Wish there was more!

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I liked it. It was very much like the first book in the way the story progresses. I like the series because of the perspective of the narrator and it's more of what I enjoyed from the start.

just like the first one

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This is a good story to help move the main plot of Murderbot along but I felt it missed on a lot of important growth and skipped it for more action. I still enjoined the story and I burned through it in a few days but wished it had more.

I feel like this would be better if it was commended with the last book and spend some more time with the character development.

This was my least favorite of all four books

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This is one of those series I'll listen to/read again and again. A sexless cyborg soldier manages to reprogram itself, and finds itself protecting humans from unknown attackers. It is at turns, sweet as it learns to make friends, funny, when it has to come to terms with its emotions, and deeply satisfying as it struggles to overcome impossible odds. The narrator, Kevin R. Free is perfect for this with a voice that could be either male or female. #RobotUprising #Suspenseful #HappyEnding #Provocative #Underdog #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes

Stunning SF Adventure

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Unfortunately, we have no ART in this book. But, we do have a bot named Miki. This book also made me sob, so maybe I HAVE gotten attached to these characters?? I've read some reviews where they said this book made them sad, but I was in denial, okay? How quickly everything goes from being okay to devastation. Like Murderbot, I don't think I like having these emotions. It's a lot.

Now that Murderbot knows what went on with GrayCris and the mining facility, it is on its way to a terraforming installation once owned by the GrayCris corporation.

What this means, I'm not entirely sure. I'm just here for bots and vibes.

Content notes include violence and death.

Murderbot is trying to find information that it can bring to Dr. Mensah (who we met in book 1 and had contracted Murderbot). This is where Murderbot winds up as a stowaway on a ship still pretending NOT to be a SecUnit, and meeting a bot named Miki.

Miki is not a SecUnit. Miki doesn't even know what a SecUnit IS. Murderbot is quite surprised at how childlike Miki is, because it has an innocence about it that deeply annoys Murderbot, and it's not something Murderbot understands. Miki is treated more like a pet, or a young child, by its owner - Don Abene. Their dynamic is not one that Murderbot does not wish to have with a human owner, but what it winds up witnessing throughout this book has Murderbot starting to reevaluate how it looks at humans and its relationship with one of the more memorable teams it has ever worked with. I mean, there is a very important question as to why a rogue SecUnit (Murderbot) who only wants to spend its days watching shows off its entertainment feed, is going to all this trouble to get info for a human owner it ran away from.

I would almost consider this book to be the most action-packed of the series so far? There's surprises and betrayals around every corner, and there really is a lot of story that's packed into a novella. It's giving me mini-Illuminae vibes (but better). Murderbot winds up having to protect humans in this book, which it never set out to do while trying to hide as a stowaway, but we also never see it turn away from helping humans who are in trouble.

Definitely the best part of this book is Miki, and seeing Miki's dynamic throughout this book with Murderbot. They couldn't be more different. Kevin R. Free on this audiobook narration gives Miki the most innocent of voices and it really fits the character. I definitely recommend this series by audiobook! The story is compelling and the performance really brings these characters to life, even when I find the space stuff really confusing. But like I said earlier, I'm not overly concerned about the space details - what's included in this book is enough because I just like following Murderbot in its journey around space without getting too bogged down with the sci-fi nitty gritty.

The ending almost ends too abruptly to me, but that's because there's almost no time between the EVENT that happens at the very end, and some breathing room into what Murderbot decides to do next. Luckily, book 4 is already out, so there's really no need to wait around to see what happens next for our beloved bot.

Murderbot befriends an innocent bot

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