finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
The second part of the Monk & Robot series, focusing on the journey of said monk and robot back into contact with human society. By establishing that contact, some extra world-building happens - some great and some not so much. We are sold the idea that robots willingly avoid using digital communication protocols, avoid integrating with knowledge databases or even mere calculators, and avoid repairing themselves because they just accept death. The robot's personality and character plays a bigger role in this story, with longer dialogues and, matter of fact, staged monologues. The robot taps into several combined tropes: innocently insensitive, fish out of water, simple-minded wisdom. Well, my annoyance makes me empathize with Dex having to deal with all that, so the books still works somehow.