Reviews tagging 'Gore'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

11 reviews

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Murderbot continues to be great, I love the world, I love the narration style and I love ART. Murderbot also continues to be maybe concernly relatable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Slavery

laguerrelewis's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

I love Murderbot!! It was very fun to pick up basically immediately where we left off, and there was a lot more to mine from this setting and scenario than I thought possible. Oh Murderbot, you are so distressed by the fact that everyone wants to be your friend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Classism, Medical content, Violence, Colonisation, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

wilybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Minor: Gore and Confinement

anjasshelf's review against another edition

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: Slavery, Trafficking, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

em_of_swags's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-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

3.75

I love Murderbot but also my brain can never process what happens in these books lmao, let alone remember the previous one, but still nice

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Colonisation, Gore, and Medical content

alexalily's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Medical content, Slavery, Gore, and Blood

helfire124's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

5.0

I love the murderbot series and this follows directly from the events of network effect and carries on the enthralling events. Could barely put it down.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Gore, Trafficking, Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Blood, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery

Minor: Sexual content

crownoflaurel's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Colonisation, and Gaslighting

Minor: Gore, Trafficking, and Slavery

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

As I’ve said upon finishing every book in this series, I love Murderbot. This story begins immediately where Network Effect (#5) ended. I found it essential to have that one fresh in my mind before reading this one (#7). (Number 6 is a standalone with the same characters.)

Murderbot is dealing with an evil Corporation - the kind it had escaped in the first book in the series - plus planetary colonists who are either ornery or outright unfriendly and the occasional infected agricultural bot intent on killing anything that appears to be human. 

In the middle of this mix of people and machines at cross purposes, Murderbot splits its time between saving its humans and watching its favorite soap operas. The thought of a robot killing machine loving soap operas is one of the more endearing features of these books.

Murderbot is more emotionally fragile here, with very low self esteem. It’s hard to see it feeling so unsure of itself and its abilities. We know how capable Murderbot is but it’s overwhelmed by the possibility that it will fail and all its humans and its bot friends will be killed. Its unusual vulnerability makes it especially sympathetic. The plot was satisfying and convoluted as always. 

Naturally I’m eager for the next book. Since this was just published, I know I’ll have to wait a while. So incredibly frustrating….

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Colonisation, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

scifi_rat's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Body horror, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Kidnapping