The Librarian's Husband's Book Club discussion

Finished All Systems Red? Mission complete—now let’s talk.

How did Murderbot’s journey land with you? Did the mix of action, humor, and questions about autonomy and identity work for you by the end?

Share your final thoughts and write your review—what stood out, what surprised you, and what made you want (or not want) to keep going with the series.

I read this in September 2025. Definitely want to get back to this series someday. Very worthwhile, and I hear it just gets better moving forward.

Here's my short, spoiler-free review . . . . . .

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I so enjoyed meeting up with Murderbot once again. I read this as a book in 2021 and now I listened to the audio book, which I highly recommend.
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My review:

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Cicero wrote: "I so enjoyed meeting up with Murderbot once again. I read this as a book in 2021 and now I listened to the audio book, which I highly recommend.
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I agree. Have you seen the mini-series on Apple TV? Alexander Skarsgard portrays the character exactly as I see him.

aPriL does feral sometimes wrote: "My review:

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Good points. I saw Xe as a male, perhaps influenced by the Apple TV series - which I saw before reading the book.

Was this more fun as an audio book? I feel like it would be. I also have not seen the series.

My Review :
Loved All Systems Red! Murderbot is hilarious, smart, and surprisingly emotional.

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Michael wrote: "Cicero wrote: "I so enjoyed meeting up with Murderbot once again. I read this as a book in 2021 and now I listened to the audio book, which I highly recommend.
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Yes, I saw the show but I much preferred the book instead. I'm not sure why! : )

Soft DNF for me. The audiobook was a little whacky for me due to a constant tune playing in the background. I am interested in checking out the show on apple. Will i try to reread it before I watch it? Not sure yet. But the writing style wasnt bad and I enjoyed the humorous parts. I just dont think I was in the right headspace for this one right now.

Devon wrote: "Soft DNF for me. The audiobook was a little whacky for me due to a constant tune playing in the background. I am interested in checking out the show on apple. Will i try to reread it before I watch..."

That does sound distracting - music constantly in the background. I haven't utilized audiobooks for any in this series yet.

I didn’t hear any music in the background of there audio book I listened to, Deven. But I would have had an issue with that too! Know that there are other versions with no music in the background.

I put the TV series on and saw about ;5 minutes before I got distracted. My husband watched several episodes and was enjoying it.

I finished the read. I did the Kindle Unlimited read version of the story. I liked it and ended up giving it 4 stars because it kept me engaged and made me laugh. My review was a little, eh...I wasn't sure what made me like it. I don't know if was because I could picture the actor that was on the front "display" of my KU copy just makes me happy, probably. But overall here is my review:

I thought the amount of action in this story was great. The story is only 150 pages but action happened so often that it felt like every page had some.

I liked all of the characters. I especially like the way Murderbot explained why he was doing certain things.

I can see why this was made into a show.

My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... I enjoyed it so much I'm reading the next parts! :)