Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

19 reviews

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I mean I guess it was good. I wanted more MB & ART interactions. Also, this might be more of a fandom building up wrong expectations thing, but I think more page time could have been spent on MB coping with its trauma. Its sudden turnaround at the end that's related to it felt like it had no build-up and was instead written to be a neat happy ending. But that makes no sense because this isn't even the last book in the series.

Rogue B-E secunit make appearances in future books pls pls pls pls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Confinement, Slavery, and Grief

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Sexual content

carol16's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.25

It is cute as ever but felt more like a filler than anything 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Mental illness

language_loving_amateur'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

PHENOMENAL!!!! If I could give this more than 5 stars I would. Everyone has been through so much and they are doing such a good job and I love them. The team keeps trying to save strangers from contract slavery and help people even though they are miserable, injured assholes (Murderbot and ART are at least some of the time). I love how Murderbot is not an objective observer sometimes (it thinks there is something wrong with Three for preferring educational modules over fiction). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Slavery and Gun violence

evrunira's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense 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

3.5

Nothing very interesting in the plot but a great transition into exploring murderbot's inner psyche

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Colonisation, and Self harm

I wasn't very thrilled to discover that we were still in the same plotline on the same planet when starting the book, and I find the main plot quite bland and forced. However, I was pleasantly surprised to be able to learn more about Murderbot's inner emotional state. Here it is at the most vulnerable we have seen, and we finally see it start to process the events of the past books. Murderbot has constantly been caring for Mensa's emotional well-being while neglecting its own mental health and it has finally come to a head. I am happy to see the character development progress in this new direction and I hope the plot is able to advance and complement this further.

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

3.75

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 3.5 stars
Worldbuilding: 3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Murder, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Death, Body horror, and Slavery

Minor: Trafficking

ladythana's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Mental illness, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

hendrixpants's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Mental illness

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

pan_to_ffel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

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