I enjoyed that this was different from the former Murderbot stories, more of a "slice of life", a look into Murderbot's new life on Preservation and how it settles in and gets along with what must be a very weird situation for our favourite killing machine.Through an interesting "whodunnit" plot, we get to see how the people on Preservation react to Murderbot and the questions and problems a non-human, non-robot entity with no clearly defined state of personhood poses to a society. Those were the parts of the story I enjoyed the most, because murder mysteries are generally not my cup of tea, although I like that Martha Wells shakes things up a bit plot-wise and Murderbot can't realy on its usual hacking capabilities to solve everything, but muster interact with (gasp) humans!After all, this is the sixth installment in the Murderbot series, so I do appreciate her giving us a variety of stories to keep things interesting. What threw me off a little was the extensive use of parenthesis.