Enjoying this one so far. About halfway through and the story has really picked up after a slightly slower start.

This was longer than I remembered it to be, about 3-4 times longer than each novella. That meant a lot of things happened and, since my memory of the first read through was pretty hazy, there was a lot I had forgotten. Which explains why I was *so confused* when I first read the sequel. 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, it‘s a good book and I love the characters. But the series is much better marathoned than read in publication-times instalments.

I was hoping to continue my re-read in chronological rather than publication order… but I ran out of free books in audible (and shortly will end my audible sub anyway). Network Effect follows Exit Strategy in publication order and is the only novel-length Murderbot book so far. At least the one I‘ve skipped for now, Fugitive Telemetry, is more of a standalone story (from memory). And has a longer wait time at the library 🤷‍♀️

Finished this and wanted to go into the next one immediately. Re-listening to them all has been helping me get the overarching story straight in my head. I really enjoy Murderbot‘s voice and internal monologue and I am very much dreading the screen adaptation (based on what we know so far, massive side-eye).

Still enjoying this series. I think, like Murderbot, it probably suffers a bit from how spaced out I‘ve been reading them (a book a year, upon release) but will make for good re-reads eventually.

Anyway, another portal fantasy in which a group of mostly-recurring characters visit several worlds. It‘s not a dinosaur book, but a dinosaur world is one of the interesting places they visit.

If new to the series, start with Every Heart a Doorway.

Flew through this one, even though it‘s an audiobook and I usually only listen to them while driving. It was a reread and it didn‘t take long to remember why I had like this particular instalment, despite the series overall blending together in my memory. If you like snarky, ungendered, cyborg, reluctant killing machines, this is a series for you.

Now that I‘m back at work, I‘m also back to commuting and listening to audiobooks. This is my current aural re-read. Loving remembering the origins of Murderbot.

This was a great read! Not only time travel and cats, but banter, secrets and messing with history.

Aside from generally liking Angela Slatter‘s work, I had to pick up this one because of the gorgeous cover.

A very cute premise: time travel is possible but only if one human is accompanied by one cat. So far getting some Connie Willis vibes (To Say Nothing of the Dog, more than Doomsday Book), but with more humorous footnotes.

Excellent worldbuilding on many levels. Overall, this book could almost be three novellas, except the middle one would suffer a bit too much from middle book syndrome if it wasn‘t flanked by the other two parts. Why three novellas? There were big time jumps in between parts and a new set of protagonists for each part. I found it quite easy to get into each new set of characters, but I did take a break between parts 2 and 3 to finish another read.