Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

42 reviews

wilybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping

Minor: Medical content and Slavery

sexualedward's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I do like this novella. Murderbot and ART are great characters. But I do see a lot of room for improvement. The climax was lackluster with no real danger, most of the story was predictable, and the secondary characters weren’t fleshed out enough. I much prefer longer books, so I may be biased, but I think it would have been better if it had more time to set things up.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Gun violence

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, and Gore

Minor: Colonisation and Panic attacks/disorders

dominicangirl's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, and Mental illness

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Blood

Minor: Medical content

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I'm so into this series! I'm so glad my library has five of the audiobooks available because I'm sure I'm just gonna listen to these as quickly as I can. I really liked the new characters in this one and am interested to find out what happens next. Murderbot is very relatable as always.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gun violence

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, and Death

inferiorwit's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Violence

keen's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Wells is so good at making me feel attached to such loveable characters. This was the perfect book to read in between my horror binge. Funny and adventurou while giving me adrenaline rushes whenever a character was in trouble.

I still have occasional problems keeping up with the new sci-fi terms, but it's not too difficult. It only required me to do some re-reading.

Also, this is my first time seeing neopronouns used in published media. And I adore seeing Wells continue representing adorable polyamorous relationships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping

Minor: Blood

gracecrandall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Sexual violence and Slavery