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While reading this book I kept flashing on some of the same ideas that come to mind when I read the first Murderbot story: how the supposedly emotionless robots actually expressed emotions in a way that strongly reminded me of some folks' habit of naming their machines, attributing gender and personality to them. This one is certainly in conversation with the Murderbot idea.

The opening segment reminded me of Camus or Brecht in the absurdist comedy centering around a valet robot murdering its/his human master. From there he goes to get diagnosed and fixed, and brings us along for an increasingly chaotic glimpse into a weird future world mostly run by robots running down.

There are a lot of literary references worked in, and it's pretty clear that the author had a lot of fun writing this. I enjoyed it in patches, but felt it went on a bit long; if it had been half the length it would have been elegantly perfect. But that's just me. Other readers will adore it all.