Murderbot Diaries

Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Platform Decay

Hey everyone and Happy Wednesday!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings (and was previously hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine where it was known as Waiting on Wednesday) to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. They’re usually books that have not yet been released.

This week’s book is:

Platform Decay by Martha Wells! 📺🛸

It’s a new Murderbot Diaries books! I’m so excited!

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

SERIES: The Murderbot Diaries #8

LENGTH: 244 pages

GENRES: Science Fiction, Fiction

PUBLISHER: Tor Books

RELEASE DATE: 5 May 2026

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.

Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know.

Including human children. Ugh.

This may well call for… eye contact!

(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

Are you looking forward to Platform Decay? What books are coming out in the near future that you’re looking forward to?

As always, thank you all so much for reading and have a fantastic day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring 2026 TBR

Happy Tuesday everybody! Can’t believe it’s been a month since I last participated in this!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Books on Your Spring 2026 To-Be Read List. It’s pretty self-explanatory, so I’m not gonna elaborate this time.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into it! Here are ten books currently near the top of my ever-shifting TBR! From most likely to least likely to be read.

  1. One Piece (Volumes #73 – #78) by Eiichiro Oda
  2. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  3. A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson
  4. Proven Guilty (Dresden Files #8) by Jim Butcher
  5. The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu
  6. Aurora (Volume #2) by Red
  7. Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries #8) by Martha Wells
  8. The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro
  9. Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawsett
  10. The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence #1) by K.D. Edwards

What books are on your spring TBR? Which ones are you most excited to read? Are they upcoming releases, books that have been around awhile, or a mix of both?

As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar