Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

40 reviews

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.75

I have enjoyed this whole series this far, should I have reacquainted myself with the last 6 books before reading this one? Probably. But as always I enjoyed the dry humor and perilous adventures. This is such a fun series to think further about what it means to be a human. 

Found Family, AIs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping and Genocide

shorelinepages's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery

wilybooklover's review

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

hobblin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, and Body horror

Minor: Trafficking

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

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense 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? Yes

5.0

God I really liked this. It was interesting because I read the whole rest of the Murderbot series all in a week or two over a year ago, so at first it was a bit difficult for me to remember things. I kind of wish I'd reread them all before reading this one. But in the end I was able to catch up and not feel like I was missing anything (and I'm going to reread the whole series with my partner at some point anyway so if I did miss anything I'll get it when I reread this).

Anyway, this was excellent, just like the rest of the series. Murderbot is the best and it's so relatable as always. The world is fascinating and I love learning more about the characters. I can't wait to get more Murderbot in the future.

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Death and Blood

helfire124's review against another edition

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

alyanna_dm's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

I love the Murderbot series, but this might be the weakest book in the series (in terms of plotline). It wasn't cohesive and it got too confusing sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: War, Blood, and Gun violence

bibliocat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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

4.75

Yay, a new Murderbot book! I picked this one up brand new at a Barnes and Noble. First, I had to go buy Network Effect and read that first since this book’s story follows immediately after.

One of the overarching themes in System Collapse is the contrast between the Preservation Alliance       Crew helping each other and the colonists of the alien remnant contaminated planet (and just overall being clever while doing so), and the Barish-Estranza reps from the Corporation Rim. Perhaps this is a bit of commentary on how we all feel like cogs in a wheel, and the current state of employer/employee  relations?

Despite the blurb on the back of the book, Murderbot was not being hyper-competent, at least least at the beginning of the book because of redacted . Thank goodness we got past redacted- yes this was how it was written the text- and why it was dropping our protagonist’s reliability performance..

I really loved the story from about  chapter 7 onwards. I was absolutely fascinated with Murerbot using its fascination for media to create a documentary to sway the colonist’s opinions about the how the Corporation Rim would treat them if they signed a contract, basically into indentured servitude.
Even though Murderbot is clearly the focus of the book, I thought the other characters were represented well.
The action picked up from there right until the end of the book. And the last two sentences of the book -aww, so adorable.

Minor quibbles I had overall- I didn’t think the story was too long like I’ve seen other reviewers say, but I thought the individual chapters were too long. There wasn’t good pause points. Also, I wanted to know more about what freed Secunit Three was going through, since Murderbot gave it the instructions to hack its governor module at the end of the last book. Plus we’ve now got at least one more Secunit in this book that we only know is going to go back to work and try to hide this fact.

Will be looking forward to future  Murderbot stories. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Colonisation

Minor: Mental illness