Review: Network Effect
This is another Murderbot novel, and I’ve not had much to say about the preceding chapters beyond “good fun.” in Network Effect, I found that Martha Wells brought together a lot of the character threads that she placed in earlier novellas into a powerful emotional climax in the middle of a rollicking space adventure.
She has spent those early novellas putting the sets in place and establishing character details that feel like tropes – and in some ways are – that are combined here to have more depth and power than I had been expecting. She snuck up on me, she did and in the best way. I’m not going to say much more so she can sneak up on you.
Strongly Recommended.