Reviews tagging 'Death'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

23 reviews

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

twistykris's review

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I simply love Murderbot, ART, and their escapades to saving humans from being mauled, mangled, and murdered, while Murderbot ALSO tries to navigate its PTSD and trauma regarding an event from a previous book.

These books just hit me differently; I can go from laughing because Murderbot tells ART to go fuck itself, and then a minute later, I'm on the verge of tears because Murderbot is just simply not okay. And then I'm in shock and cheering because

Murderbot tells another SecUnit with a malfunctioning governor module "come with us."

I also loved

the ending where we get another bot who ART doesn't like?? and Murderbot knowing it wants to continue traveling with Art is just SO wonderful and assures me we're getting another installation of this series.

I have listened to the audiobook for every Murderbot book and Kevin R. Free continues to be just an absolute delight to listen to. He portrays all of the voices well, especially Murderbot's dry, sarcastic tone. However, there were certain parts I wish I had a physical or digital copy to actually read and follow along with- I think it would have been helpful for me to visualize the coding language Murderbot uses to communicate with another more archaic unit. One reason to just buy the series, ehehe...

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Slavery

Minor: Trafficking, Death, and Murder

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

divine529's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

It's pretty much a given at this point that if there's a new Murderbot book, I'm going to love it. I loved this, but it wasn't an absolute 100% favorite, not because it wasn't fantastic, but because some of the pacing/choices some of the characters made didn't sit right with me. 
That aside, I live and breathe for Murderbot as a character always and seeing It struggle the way it did in this book was a whole thing for me to experience - essentially It's working through it's trauma and is not having a good time. ART is also one of my favorites always and ART and MB's dynamic is everything. 
I love seeing the evolution of the humans' relationships with each other and with the bots throughout the books and it was no different here. 
This book deals a lot with colonization of a specific planet and seeing the politics involved in all of that was so interesting, but also infuriating. 
All in all, another fantastic Murderbot book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Colonisation

Minor: Murder, Death, and Trafficking

julesadventurezone'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

This does a lovely job at expanding the story from the end of Network Effect. The cast of characters is well chosen

, though I did wish for more Three,

and I really like Murderbot's emotional journey through the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gun violence, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

scifi_rat's review against another edition

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

babudarabu'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Trafficking, Slavery, and Murder

ezwolf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

Murderbot, my beloved!

This next installment lives up to the rest of the series and it was so much fun to see Murderbot and ART interact with each other and their humans some more. The dynamic between Iris and Murderbot was fun to watch because Murderbot is aware of how special she is to ART and so it takes that in to consideration. I love found family and I love the like frustrated affection Murderbot has when it realizes that it has so many more humans to protect. 

I look forward to reading wherever their next adventure goes!

Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for making this available in exchange for an honest review!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gun violence

Moderate: Death, Blood, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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

4.75

This was shipped to me early by mistake and I couldn't not read it immediately. 

This book reads a bit like an ongoing panic attack by our resident SecUnit. Murderbot is doing worse than usual, poor dear. 

The book makes the choice to chop down the now rather massive ensemble cast to four plus MB for the majority of the book, which is smart and I appreciate it, but also I was a little sad that we got so little Three content. Also i don't think in terms of compelling core team nothing will reach Amena & ART & Murderbot. Which is a lot of words to say that the relationships at the core of this book were somewhat less compelling than the ones in Network Effect. 

In terms of steps up I found the happenings easier to follow (especially the intersystem communication).

I also liked the story very much, especially the team frantically making a documentary and the very tense escape through the dark at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Murder, Death, Colonisation, Blood, Body horror, Trafficking, Cursing, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit