Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

42 reviews

xta_07's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

Muderbot leaves the humans who have been assigned as their guardians in the last book, to find out more about their murky past. To do so they must face on of their greatest fears. Interacting with real humans.

So much fun to go along for the ride with Murderbot as they navigate their way amongst humans, and as they deal with their social anxiety. The new cast of characters is also great, I especially liked the sarcastic transport ship, ART, or Asshole Research Transport as Murderbot call them. Sentient bots, and transport ships for that matter, need to stick together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Kidnapping

saskiahill's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

The murderbot books are so well written, I always end up devouring them in a really short time! Clever, witty, well paced and just such a well written lead character (though I also loved ART!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Torture, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Mass/school shootings

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Body horror

scarlettskyes's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery

babudarabu's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Death, Medical content, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Confinement

lbelow's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Slavery

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, and Death

maevemil's review against another edition

reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Stalking, and Kidnapping

iono's review

adventurous funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Slavery, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content

bluejayreads's review

4.5

Like the first book in the series, this one was entertaining but way too short. Murderbot spent most of this one passing as human, which was fantastic. I found its attempts to figure out how to interact with people and act like a human amusing and remarkably relatable. (Also, watching Murderbot attempt to do an actual job interview was hilarious.) The human side characters were pretty good too. Murderbot's goal this book is to get answers about its past - and it did, but the answers felt anticlimactic. Either there's going to be more to it or the answers aren't a huge part of whatever Murderbot is looking for. It's on a journey looking for something, but it's not really sure what yet. (and honestly that's pretty relatable too), and that made this whole book feel less like a self-contained story and more like one section of a larger book. It's not like *All Systems Red* where it definitely could have been expanded - it was exactly as long as it needed to be, it just felt incomplete. Perhaps I should be reading this like a novel released in parts than as individual novellas? Regardless, I enjoyed it and I'm excited to keep reading this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Blood

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, and Kidnapping

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