I need every single one of you to read the murderbot diaries.
In whump terms (with light spoilers): half human half robot living weapon who’s spent the entirety of its life forced to follow every command of humans who didn’t see it as a sentient being, jumping in front of any danger and getting blown into pieces to protect people who didn’t give a damn about it at best and hurt it personally at worst. It hacked its own control but kept it hidden still doing its job until Actually Decent Humans came and stuff happened. It’s basically a recovery arc where Living Weapon is terrified of humans but is also hella badass, with lots of hacking and fights and nearly dying and PTSD involved.
In me being in love with the book terms (still light spoilers): Murderbot is hilarious, its narration is outright fun and engaging, I’m in love with the way it reacts to everything, I need to give it a hug except it doesn’t like hugs so I would love to instead watch a show with it while keeping zero eye contact because have I mentioned its main coping mechanism is watching media every free second it’s got, which is hilariously relatable but also terrifyingly sad to consider if you think about any part of its life for longer than two seconds. It’s super whumpy. It’s funny. It’s fun. It’s the best book ever (in my superiorly correct and objective opinion).
Everyone should read it. Now.