Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Network Effect by Martha Wells

109 reviews

jerseygirl_reads'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? It's complicated

5.0

I love Secunit/murder bot so much with all my heart I waited so long for the audiobook and it was so worth it I've listened to all of the books on audio and the narrator is perfect for it. This was my favorite out of the series so far can't wait for my hold to come in for the next book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Cursing, Violence, and Gun violence

michaelcattigan's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

shermansays's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

smashingreads's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful relaxing slow-paced

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

3.5

Initial thoughts: I loved the ending, but the middle seemed to drag for quite a long time. The audiobook was hard to follow at times because there wasn't ema bold enough transition between current and past.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

bluestockingbookworm's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

amylynn44'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Violence

illtakethenightshiftx's review

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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

I’ll write a coherent review when I’m able, but goddammit I love Murderbot. 

I laughed! I cried! I stared at the wall for 30 minutes after I finished it! While crying!

Minus some pacing issues towards the middle, this was a near-perfect novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

I love Murderbot. Its snarky comments, its jaded outlook, its loyalty to its humans, its love of soap operas - I’m just smitten. I first read this several years ago but didn’t remember it very well. I’m about to start System Collapse which takes place immediately after Network Effect so I reread this to refresh my spotty memory. 

As with all the Murderbot books, the story moves fast, the characters are as fleshed out as can be when some are fleshless, and the plot has Murderbot back with its friend ART, a research vessel, where Murderbot gets to rescue ART’s crew from … well, the plot is complicated. 

But the writing is excellent, really drawing the reader in from the beginning. I hope, hope, hope there will be many more Murderbot stories in our future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

karin_goodreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

The Murderbot Diaries' first full novel! Murderbot needs to deal with its crew getting mixed up in a space kidnapping, taking on a strange planet and its colony, while keeping everyone (mostly) intact and alive. An old friend from the past makes a return with a urgent help request. Murderbot just needs to get through all of it in one piece (mentally, emotionally & physically)... how challenging can it be?
 

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.

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Content Warnings

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