Em decided to keep listening to the 2 audiobook in this series — the dramatized audiobooks are all free on the Hoopla app.

Lib and Em read this quick novella for book club and it was hit or miss. Enjoyable, but hard to really pin down because it is so short and just the beginning of a multi-book series. Book 1 is the start of Apple TV's new "Murder Bot" series—book 1 is season 1 of the show.

I honestly don’t even know how to review these books because there is so much in them. Sanderson’s writing is flawless. There are always moments of just about every kind—of humor, deep internal thought as characters become who they are meant to be, major world building plot development, and that just scratches the surface. These are books where it is clear that every word on the page is intentional.

Our favorite read of the year — seriously — 6 star masterpiece!! Devney Perry has a way of bringing you along on the journey like you're right next to these characters as they experience the story. The storytelling and world building is right where it should be for book 1 in a series—a lot of it feels new and unique, but not over the top or hard to grasp. AND...this is how you do a slow burn right—our MMC and MFC are their own whole persons, and the slow progression of their relationship does falling in love justice. In short...GO READ THIS BOOK.