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3.5/5

An AI wakes up missing 10 days of memory and must retrace zir steps to figure out what happened. Scorn is a freelance journalist actively seeking out the truth even if it puts zir very existence at risk.

I can see how the comparison is made to Murderbot as both are AIs that don't desire to be human and defy their intended purpose, but this is a very different story, and Scorn is a very different protagonist. I enjoy both in their own way.

Since I started this week's reading, I've been attempting to investigate Sabrina and what on earth happened to her and her mother! Or at the very least to look into how Iris describes her and what that may tell us about Laura or Iris herself. Here, Iris compares Sabrina to Laura twice:

"her grave eyes blue as Laura's"
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"She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism..."