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standard_user's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Cursing and Death
Minor: Kidnapping
jerseygirl_reads's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Cursing, Violence, and Gun violence
bluestockingbookworm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Grief, Classism, Cursing, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death and Kidnapping
Minor: Blood, Deportation, War, Murder, Confinement, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
pedanther's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Confinement, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Cursing, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Gore
Minor: Slavery
karin_goodreads's review against another edition
- 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
It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.
I am so entangled in this universe that leaving is impossible (not that I'd even want to do that). I feel like someone grabbed me by my shoulders and shook me so hard that my brain got bounced around.
What the fuck? I was NOT prepared for all of these emotions and the raw reality of learning to live. This was more than I could even dreams of - Murderbot, its crew, ART with its crew, space adventures and a fuckton more! (So much happened in here I swear.)
I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I’m not careful I could be a thing again.
Well, the adventures were overshadowed by the amount of emotional damage that every other page of this book decided to hit me with. I was genuinely worried and crying by the last chapters, it's not even funny (the book is funny tho). Nevertheless, the writing, the characters, the plot and all the dynamics are to die for! I am thrilled to continue the series and get to witness even more of Murderbot's journey! <3
I don't want to not see you again.
Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Death, and Gun violence
Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Colonisation, Blood, and Kidnapping
Minor: Grief, Slavery, Confinement, and Panic attacks/disorders
maeverose's review against another edition
4.0
I love Murderbot
I love it’s reactions to people’s concern for it, and I love that we got to see so much emotional character development in this book. I would give Murderbot the whole world if I could.
I love ART
I already like 3
There are an unnecessary amount of characters and that leaves us with a lot of them being underdeveloped. I do wish I had a better sense of each of their personalities.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Violence
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Blood, and Gore
Minor: Excrement and Sexual content
Note on the gore: it’s pretty much in line with the rest of the series in that it’s written in that not-super-descriptive robotic type of way, but it’s definitely a bit more descriptive and more abundant in this book.bebidocrimes's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Cursing
some_random_person_hi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
On a certain level, I doubt I would be able to finish reading this book without spoilers. There were just too many tense and emotional moments.
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Blood, Suicide, Death, and Body horror
Minor: Medical content, Sexual content, and Excrement
qrschulte's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Confinement and Colonisation
Minor: Dysphoria and Pregnancy
icarusandthesun's review
- 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
3.0
i love art's and muderbot's relationship, it's so unique and full of banter and still tinged with a certain kind of affection.
the story was packed with action and adventure and interesting plot-points and plot-twists, however the pacing felt a little off this time.
some parts of the mission were hard to read, even a little boring. the great characters undoubtedly made up for it though. reading about murderbot interacting with anyone is always the most entertaining and heartwarming. the emotional character development in this one was strong with all these new and important relationships established and explored.
i loved the experimenting with different POVs towards the end, that was refreshing and just a good time in general.
the best book character-wise, but not really the best story-wise.
update: march 26
upon re-reading it, i've only been enforced in my opinion that this one's probably my least favorite murderbot diary. it's kinda lengthy and though the plot is interesting 'on paper', the actual writing was a little exhausting.
as i've mentioned before, the characters are great and so is the character development. the rest, though, ehh...
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders