Regardless of the how improbable this all is, it's entertaining if you use some suspension of disbelief to move past that. It feels highly improbable given the futuristic world this is and the unliklihood that a single system like murderbot just has so much access to hack just about every tech. Just like my complaint with the prior book, Murderbot has these hacking abilities that feel like they are just a umbrella system of Deus Ex tools to resolve plot easily and quickly. It still suffers from a frequent use of Deus Ex Machina plot devices though. It was action packed, murderbot is still his amazingly quirky self and it's cool to see characters return and a plot coming together. It's very action packed and starts putting the plot together again with the same character of book 1.

It's a continuation to what feels like the final chapters finally to a full novel and teases you to get book two.

This next part of the series isn't a complete book as it, again like I said previously, feels like the next chapters of the prior book. Luckily I got the set of them all at a super discounted rate so at the discount it equals to a little above the price of a normal book. I am not a fan of this type of business model of breaking up a book like this and disguising it as seperate novellas.

This book here is just the next chapters of the prior book as it immediately continues immediately after the events of the previous book. This is a single book that has been cut up into several parts. I'm glad I did for the sense of closure to the story, though I won't personally be listening any further. If you're three books deep into this series and wondering whether its worthwhile continuing, as I was, pick up this book and give it a listen. It's a satisfying ending - or at least pause - to murderbot's story and gave a welcome sense of closure to the series. Honestly, it feels like the author wrote the story and then realised it was too short, so went back in and padded it out so it could meet a required word length Despite this, Exit Strategy is worth a listen if you've already committed to the first three books, as it concludes the first 'arc' in the murderbot series. This book gets a lot more technical in its worldbuilding than the first 3 books, going into frankly boring detail about how space stations work, how hotels manage their security feeds, how everyone seems out to do data mining, and how 'hacking' in this universe works. The fourth book in the murderbot series, Exit Strategy starts slow and takes a while to build.

Exit strategy by martha wells