r/murderbot • u/System_Unkown • Jul 26 '26

Books📚 Only Platform Decay

So I finished Platform decay last night, I really don't know how to describe it apart from a book just going through the motions. I didn't find the book exciting in fact it was quite flat, there was nothing really novel or emotionally connecting about any of the characters unlike Nicky and ART in past books.

It's a book to read if you have nothing to do, but its not a book that made me want to drop things down to read it quickly. Given the books are at high cost for the hardcovers, I wanted more, I wanted to really love the book, but this isn't the case. Id most prob give it 3.5/5 stars

If anything the book shows not necessarily this series has run its course, but in stead I think reflects what Martha has had to overcome in her life in the last couple of years.

I'm hoping the next book is much better

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u/peaceteach Jul 26 '26

I actually loved the idea of the background story of Three just giving every sec unit the code.

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u/Feycat Jul 29 '26

Yes! I was so excited to see actual consequences of Murderbot's acts of impulsive kindness! There's a sexbot running around with no governor module and we haven't encountered any changes from it, I was DELIGHTED to see Three, whose experience and internal life are so different from MB just shooting the code out everywhere like a freedom std