Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Network Effect by Martha Wells

5 reviews

breezer'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, and Kidnapping

helfire124's review

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

boglord's review

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

dolores_madil's review

emotional sad 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

5.0

I absolutely love this. My biggest criticism has been that I wanted more content from the novellas. This gave me that the emotions, the character development, the exploring of relationships yes is all I have to say. I am fully and unconditionally in love with Murderbot and will gladly be its life partner. Everyone who said it was too long and could have been cut down was wrong because then we would have lost all the character development and rareness that was in this book. So the novellas up to now have been about moving the plot forward and learning about Murderbot along the way but at the same time, the short word count has also let Murderbot be like I don’t want to deal with emotions. In this novel, they were forced in many different ways to confront their emotions and to a certain extent deal with them or at least not ignore them. Murderbot is an android and in this world AI’s of all kinds can become sentient and this is a new concept not just for the many different types of AI but also for humans. For the first time, we really get to fully see and experience it not just acknowledge it and then push it off because we have to give the plot more page time. So far one of best books I have ready this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Genocide, and Torture

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

alsoapples's review

adventurous funny hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Death