This isn't actually going to be much of a review. It was everything I wanted from a Murderbot book, and being novel-length didn't make it draggy or slow, just added more side plots and time for interaction. I really loved how the title played into the story, both with problems with software, and with Murderbot's expanding social network, which it'd spent the last four novellas unintentionally building. We get some new world building aspects, and a bunch of new characters as well as a few old favourites returning. Murderbot's social anxiety and trust issues remain constant, not having magically been "fixed" by the conclusion of the last story.

AND the use of media and storytelling theme took exactly the turn I wanted it to!