Reviews tagging 'Blood'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

33 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, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

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

Minor: Death and Blood

alexalily's review against another edition

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: Gore, Slavery, Blood, and Medical content

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

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: Gun violence, Blood, and War

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: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Colonisation, 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: Body horror, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Colonisation

Minor: Death, Trafficking, and Murder

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

adventurous 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, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery and Medical content

bebidocrimes'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

4.75

Phew, if you thought Muderbot had anxiety and trauma before! This installment showed more Muderbot having more vulnerability, at least with itself in recognizing it's own emotions and issues, which was so heartwarming. I hope it and Iris get more time to interact in the future, I'm hoping Wells puts her up there with Ratthi (re: being in every situation).

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Slavery and Colonisation

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

Minor: Kidnapping

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: Gun violence and Violence

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

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders