Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries, #3
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Rogue Protocol brings more action, more emotional repression, and another dose of Murderbot doing its best to pretend it doesn’t care — while obviously caring a lot. This installment returns to a faster pace as Murderbot investigates a shady corporation, juggles hacked systems, and continues grappling with identity and freedom. While ART doesn’t return in this book, we meet Miki — a cheerful, overly trusting comfort unit who sees the best in everyone and calls its human team “friends.” Watching Murderbot try (and fail) to stay emotionally detached from Miki makes for some of the most poignant moments in the series so far.
The plot is tightly executed and mission-focused, but it’s the emotional undercurrent that lingers. Murderbot’s inner conflict continues to evolve in small, powerful ways, and the contrast between its jaded worldview and Miki’s optimism hits surprisingly hard. It’s still sarcastic, still introverted, still obsessed with media, and somehow managing to form accidental emotional attachments along the way — even if it would rather self-destruct than talk about it.
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