Exit Strategy

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's Summary

The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red. 

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? 

Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah - its former owner (protector? friend?) - submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. 

But who's going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it's caught?

©2018 Martha Wells (P)2018 Recorded Books

Please ma'am, may i have moar Murderbot?

i suppose all good things must come to an end, and this concluded brilliantly, but it just whet my appetite for more. Murderbot has grown into a sassy, sarcastic, funny 'accidental' hero.

Love this series

Murderbot Diaries are hilarious and seriously one of the best series I've listened too. The performance was great and I can't wait to hear more from the Narrator. As for Martha Wells story, I loved it. She does a great job to create a story around the perfect reluctant antihero. I would recommend this for short road trips or just hanging around.

Hmmm

So this feels more like a summery of the first three stories then an addition to them. The first three books were fun, entertaining, suspenseful. I felt engaged the entire time. This was more like remember when/rehashing of the first three books etc. Maybe Wells is trying to give the short book series and end by recapping everything and bringing all the characters back together?
I found myself drifting off . Bored maybe.
The narrator is first rate and enjoyable. Really brings to life each character.
In a nut shell .. this just wasn't that great. Sorry, I really wanted it to be.

New favorite series! Best I've read in YEARS!!!

Murderbot is the BEST and my new favorite character in any book, or series! READ this series it is AWESOME! While I am sad there won't be any more books, (I mean who isn't when they reach the end of a great series?) honestly I wouldn't have it any other way. The ending is perfect the way it is. There's always rereading if I need my new favorite fictitious character to keep me company.
The performance is fantastic as well, I feel like the reader gives even more voice and perspective to Murderbot than I could have supplied in my own mind. I don't give a full five star review often but I would give this series 6 if I could. Excuse now me while I go re-read the entire series again, right now, because it's THAT GOOD!

Ahhh Murderbot I love you. I wish it wasn't over!

It was a good conclusion to the series. I wish there was more! The narrator was great too.

Worth it if found on sale. This is a cut up series

This is not a novella. This is a single book that has been cut up into several parts. This book here is just the next chapters of the prior book as it immediately continues immediately after the events of the previous book.

I am not a fan of this type of business model of breaking up a book like this and disguising it as seperate novellas. Luckily I got the set of them all at a super discounted rate so at the discount it equals to a little above the price of a normal book.

This next part of the series isn't a complete book as it, again like I said previously, feels like the next chapters of the prior book. It's a continuation to what feels like the final chapters finally to a full novel and teases you to get book two. It's very action packed and starts putting the plot together again with the same character of book 1.

I liked this next part of this book. It was action packed, murderbot is still his amazingly quirky self and it's cool to see characters return and a plot coming together.

It still suffers from a frequent use of Deus Ex Machina plot devices though. Just like my complaint with the prior book, Murderbot has these hacking abilities that feel like they are just a umbrella system of Deus Ex tools to resolve plot easily and quickly. It feels highly improbable given the futuristic world this is and the unliklihood that a single system like murderbot just has so much access to hack just about every tech. Regardless of the how improbable this all is, it's entertaining if you use some suspension of disbelief to move past that.

It serves its purpose as easily consumable entertainment that you don't have to overthink. All the action makes this just mind numbing, unchallenging fun.

More Murderbot! More! More!

Loved this conclusion and I look forward to more stories about my favorite rogue sec unit.

Murderbot Fan!

Let me add my voice to the myriad of Murderbot fans. I loved the story of this misanthropic AI who, finally on his own, struggled with eremitic desires vs a need to help/care for humans…a terrific metaphor for the struggle to contain and understand needs and drives at cross purposes in our lives, while using various crutches to escape the stress, just as he did with his entertainment downloads. Martha Wells’ superb writing, painted him in brilliant strokes of sardonic cleverness, wry humor, cynicism and the like, making it impossible to not like Murderbot. And, Kevin R. Free, kudos to you…what a perfect voice for Murderbot. Perfect! My only criticism is this: 4 credits was too expensive

Seems like a repeat

Enjoyed the first “book” in this series but by the end just felt like I was listening to the same story over and over. All “books” are very short and could easily be contained in 1 or 2 publications. Other Audible books provide a lot more value for the use of a credit and there isn’t really anything that interesting or compelling in the Murderbot universe.

Martha Wells + Murderbot + Kevin Free= original, funny & fantastic

Martha Wells hasn’t written a book I have not loved, & until last year, I didnt know her name. That’s criminal. What a mind & what range! Love this series.

And Kevin Free has the perfect tone & delivery for Murderbot/ Sec Unit Riin. What could easily be ruined, depending on a narrator’s delivery style is perfect in his hands.

If only it was not so small each installment...

...to snatch my credits. But hell, I’d do it all again. It’s worth it. Good work.

Excellence!

I have only one gripe with this series: they are short!

The story - the intrigue, the mystery, the characters , the main character`s development, the pacing, the action ... all excellent.

Any metaphysical and philosophical musings and insights into the "human condition" are the icing on the top of a very tasty cake. Well, perhaps muffin is the better comparison since, as I say, these stories are a bit on the small side. But so packed with goodness that I do not begrudge the cost. Excellent entertainment value, though it leaves me wanting more at the end of every instalment.

Enjoying these books more and more

The 4 stars is simply for audible value for money, 3 something hours is not much for a credit.
I love the story and the narrator is excellent. he brings Murderbot to life so perfectly. I'm really really looking forward to book 5 now, which is a full novel.

original well written sci fi

The last in the series, great narration, plot is well paced. Story is enjoyable with likeable characters and the plot keeps you hooked. it's just too short!

Good to the very end

I am torn by these stories because although highly entertaining and enjoyable I feel the publishers should have released the Murderbot Diaries as one book and not dragged it out making it very expensive for what is basically a single novel, I had to use 4 Audible credits to purchase what is an average length audiobook, that being said the story itself was great and I hope the author writes more stories set in this universe

good ending

Story was great as expected, though as usual it was too short a story for the price, given he length and cost i'd really expect to be charged the same for all 4 as a bundle. If you do like murderbot I suspect you'll get it anyway. Narration was ok, nothing bad however nothing spectacular. I prefer more expression and depth of feeling in performance, I could have fallen asleep to the relaxed mellow performance.

want more!

feels like its the last one really hope not. there is a whole universe to explore.

An ok Ending

A nice story coming to a reasonable ending. it was well and consideratly narrated too.
just the short length of each book being an issue.