Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Network Effect by Martha Wells

6 reviews

eviethebookworm's review against another edition

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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Mental illness

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Confinement, Gore, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Slavery, Confinement, Vomit, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Trafficking

bookgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

murderbot novel perfect no notes. reading this series really came at the perfect time in my life. I guess I needed a snarky emotionally avoidant companion with a lot of recognizable coping skills but also a lot of love and care in its partially augmented but mostly organic heart. 

enough feelings! book thoughts. I love the various levels of consciousness and activity. It’s like having multiple screens of interesting inputs but in narrative form. I’ve never read anything like it before and it’s super entertaining, fun, and modern. A wonderful representation of how we interact with modern tech, but made more fanciful and fun and accelerated because of Murderbot’s enhanced  processing abilities. Basically it’s fun to feel like you’re just as smart as murderbot, processing so many interesting inputs at once as he is. It’s like you get all the benefits and satisfaction of the analysis and hard work, without doing any of the work. I think it’s a triumph of creativity and readability! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Classism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Violence

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

anntharai's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

When I say I can’t get enough Murderbot I really really mean it. 

Incredible story wonderfully written and phenomenal characters. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, and Slavery

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

The adult/minor relationship is entirely very minimal, it’s brief and the minor involved doesn’t get hurt (

as murderbot puts a stop to it before the adult can do anything

but the grooming is discussed in a matter of fact way. Which, while technically minor, might be very upsetting to someone who has experienced that.

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

I was excited to read a full-length Murderbot novel and was not disappointed. Bit by bit throughout the series, we've seen Murderbot's new experiences and relationships chip away at the trauma it held from having lived under the control of the company for so long. It's connection to Dr. Mensah has most significantly shaped Murderbot so far, but in this installment, I was delighted to see

ART

return and take center stage. Seeing them fall to pieces or be willing to rip worlds apart to save the other, demonstrates the deep devotion of their relationships even though they struggle to express it with words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Body horror