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Head On, Lock In #2 - John Scalzi (2018)
This books claims to be a standalone, but I wouldn't say it is.
A large part of the beginning is an infodump about a sport created for this book called Hilketa, which is Basque for "murder". It's like if the NES game Base Wars was about football instead of baseball. The objective is to behead the randomly chosen threep/android and score by taking their head to the other side. Overall I felt there was too much focus on this sport in comparison to everything else.

This book features greater variation of body types, mostly by players of Hilketa, but there are mentions of androids with genitals and how none of the major manufactures want anything to do with that.

Once again there's a murder that initially doesn't seem like a murder and is part of a much larger criminal plot than is thought. The protagonist is the same. Considering how many android bodies they go through over the course of both books, it's fortunate they don't die when they are killed. Maybe the recklessness is a symptom of that though.

A decent near future crime solving science fiction novel that doesn't focus enough on the crime solving.
Rating: 3/5