Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Network Effect by Martha Wells

40 reviews

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Wells makes excellent use of the expanded format for this installment of Murderbot Diaries, allowing us more time with Murderbot to make connections and ruminate on how far we’ve come and what to do next. Action packed, hilarious, and incredibly touching, it’s everything we love about Murderbot cranked up to 11!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical content, Violence, Death, Grief, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

This is my favourite novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Abandonment, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, and Grief

Moderate: Colonisation, Xenophobia, Blood, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, and Medical content

stories's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I’m not sure I understood everything, but oh boy: these characters!

The characters sing. 

Murderbot is growing and maturing and navigating more than just its complex relationships with *humans* now. 

We got to revisit old friends, meet new friends, enemies and acquaintances, and experience the full spectrum of emotions in an action packed mystery investigation. 

Perhaps by consequence of being longer, I found Network Effect more challenging to read than the other Murderbot books, but I’d say it was still worth the effort. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Gore, Kidnapping, Confinement, Dysphoria, and Adult/minor relationship

boglord'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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Blood, Gun violence, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Slavery, Abandonment, Violence, Gore, Medical trauma, and Trafficking

Minor: Death and Emotional abuse

emilyplun'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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Gore and Slavery

wilybooklover's review

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Blood, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical content, Confinement, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, and Body horror

Minor: Colonisation, Slavery, and Adult/minor relationship

divine529's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense 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

I absolutely adored the Murderbot novel. 

This is basically a typical Murderbot story with more content and an emphasis on it's various relationships and I adored it on ever level. And I loved seeing ART again. That is all. 

I'll absolutely be reading this again and I can't wait to dive into the next installment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Violence, Death, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder

purplepenning'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Gore, Blood, Colonisation, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Xenophobia

skylarkindareads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Slavery

Moderate: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Gore

that_kid_with_the_sword's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Body horror

Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Medical trauma