Reviews tagging 'Death'

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

219 reviews

maevemil's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

fraxisle's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

Minor: Slavery and Medical content

iono's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Cursing and Gun violence

bluejayreads's review against another edition

5.0

This story was entertaining, irreverant, and a good time all around. I loved "Murderbot" and I really enjoyed the crew it was placed with and its dynamics. I especially enjoyed how Murderbot isn't legally considered a person and doesn't want to be considered one - it was an interesting idea. I also appreciated the way the crew insisted on treating it like a person even though that made it very uncomfortable. The plot itself was interesting, too - a capitalist hellscape universe, an interesting uninhabited planet setting, and a mystery to solve. It worked perfectly fine as a novella, but it could have easily been much longer, and I wish it was. I would have enjoyed spending a significantly longer time in this story with these characters unraveling this mystery. It's kinda like how once you eat one potato chip you want to eat the whole bag - now that I've read this book, I want to devour the entire series.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Body horror

Mind control

wilybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Medical content

maeverose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

My possible adhd made it really difficult to focus while reading this. It took me a while to get through because I had to re read things over and over for them to stick. I’m pretty sure that was just a me thing and not a problem with the book.

That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Literally halfway into the first chapter I already loved Murderbot, and grew to love it even more as the story went on. I related to it’s social discomfort a lot lol (Lot’s of parallels to autism, I felt like). I liked the humor, I actually laughed out loud several times. I really liked the worldbuilding and the way things were subtly explained to the reader without feeling like they were being explained. I liked the human characters (especially Mensah) but I feel like the only character that was fully fleshed out was Murderbot. It is a novella so of course with that many characters not all of them are gonna get the same amount of focus but I do wish they were a little more developed. Maybe if there had been a smaller cast of characters that would’ve been better. I liked the mystery at first but was a little unsatisfied with it in the end. 

I’m still going to go check out the second book from my library right away.

My feelings about the mystery reveal (major spoilers):

I didn’t love the reveal that GrayCris was just killing people because they found something that was super valuable. I kinda hoped it would’ve been something more interesting, that feels so.. boring? I also don’t know that I buy anyone going that far for money, especially because neither DeltFall nor PreservationAux knew about the remnants when they were killed/pursued, so it wasn’t like they were a current threat to GrayCris’s future fortune. I think it would’ve been cool if it took more of a horror approach and had aliens coming after them or something lol. But this isn’t marketed as horror so obviously I can’t really be mad it didn’t go that route.. and to be fair the humor would’ve felt out of place then... apparently I don’t know what I want

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Minor: Cursing, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

There is some implied gore, but never any super explicit descriptions. I really don’t like gore and never at any point was grossed out but if you’re super sensitive to that kind of thing I’d still be cautious.

breadwitchery's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery and Murder

spaghettireads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

librarianmage's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

ehmannky's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

All right, I am on the Murderbot train. This series *is* as good as everyone says it is. I just loved this little ace robot and I can't wait to see what he does with his freedom. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder