Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

32 reviews

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical content, Blood, Cursing, Gun violence, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt

iono's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Murder

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Cursing and Gun violence

maeverose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

My possible adhd made it really difficult to focus while reading this. It took me a while to get through because I had to re read things over and over for them to stick. I’m pretty sure that was just a me thing and not a problem with the book.

That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Literally halfway into the first chapter I already loved Murderbot, and grew to love it even more as the story went on. I related to it’s social discomfort a lot lol (Lot’s of parallels to autism, I felt like). I liked the humor, I actually laughed out loud several times. I really liked the worldbuilding and the way things were subtly explained to the reader without feeling like they were being explained. I liked the human characters (especially Mensah) but I feel like the only character that was fully fleshed out was Murderbot. It is a novella so of course with that many characters not all of them are gonna get the same amount of focus but I do wish they were a little more developed. Maybe if there had been a smaller cast of characters that would’ve been better. I liked the mystery at first but was a little unsatisfied with it in the end. 

I’m still going to go check out the second book from my library right away.

My feelings about the mystery reveal (major spoilers):

I didn’t love the reveal that GrayCris was just killing people because they found something that was super valuable. I kinda hoped it would’ve been something more interesting, that feels so.. boring? I also don’t know that I buy anyone going that far for money, especially because neither DeltFall nor PreservationAux knew about the remnants when they were killed/pursued, so it wasn’t like they were a current threat to GrayCris’s future fortune. I think it would’ve been cool if it took more of a horror approach and had aliens coming after them or something lol. But this isn’t marketed as horror so obviously I can’t really be mad it didn’t go that route.. and to be fair the humor would’ve felt out of place then... apparently I don’t know what I want

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Blood, Slavery, and Cursing

There is some implied gore, but never any super explicit descriptions. I really don’t like gore and never at any point was grossed out but if you’re super sensitive to that kind of thing I’d still be cautious.

sexualedward's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

 Murderbot is one of my new favorite characters now. I LOVED it, but felt it should have been longer. Felt character’s individual moment to shine, story moments, and build up to moments should have been more to them. Absolutely will be continuing the series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Murder, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Mass/school shootings, Ableism, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Slavery, Gore, Bullying, and Classism

readerette's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

I was pleasantly surprised by this one! I thought it would either be too frothy or too serious, and instead I got a bitingly compelling perspective from a rebellious, introverted, company-owned cyber-person working security on contract for a bunch of scientists on a new planet.

It's such a short read, too--no wasted words or moments, which I love.

My only complaints were a few moments I wasn't really sure what SecUnit was talking about in setting the scene--moments where there weren't quite enough words. But they didn't impact the flow of the story or my enjoyment of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Gun violence, and Blood

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gun violence, and Slavery

Minor: Cursing

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

quinna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

I loved this book/series so much I'm reading it again just weeks after finishing. I was at first disappointed by how short it was, but once I discovered I can borrow them from the library, that was a non-issue. I love Murderbot!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Violence

Minor: Murder and Slavery

wear_sun_screen's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death and Medical content

kiran_p's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Is it bad to relate to a sassy, pessimistic killer android with social anxiety who'd rather watch TV than admit it's starting to care about humans?

Because that's... That's me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Minor: Cursing