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wickedgrumpy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Minor: Gun violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Abandonment, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Trafficking
arinheck's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Slavery, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Murder, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and Body horror
booking_along's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
So I don’t know if that was what made this one of the better books in this series or if the author needed to come back to novellas and that worked.
The plot in this was different and interesting and unpredictable (especially compared to the previous books) and I enjoyed that s lot.
Also murderbot was back to its snarky ways in this one, so that was fun too.
I don’t know if the pacing in this was actually better than in network effect or if the noticeable lack of length (160 pages compared to the 350 pages of network effect) just made the pacing better, but this didn’t drag, had a nice fast pacing and a good mixture of investigation and action.
This was fun and entertaining and made me enjoy the series again, which yes repeating myself again, I didn’t expect after that last book at all.
Well done, Martha wells! Let’s hope the next one will be a bit different and a similar pacing ad well, so that it is kept interesting and more unique and makes this sierra worth while to read just like this novella did!
Graphic: Murder, Trafficking, and Kidnapping
indeedithappens'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
3.75
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Slavery, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Cursing, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Stalking, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Trafficking, Abandonment, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
mothiver's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Blood, Violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Gun violence
Minor: Police brutality
lazydazey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Minor: Trafficking
breezer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Trafficking and Slavery
erebus53's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
When SecUnit is called in to help investigate the untimely demise of a "dead human" (can you just refer to "the victim"?!) it first has to figure out if this person had any connection to the GrayCris corporates who have been threatening his human companion, Mensah. Although SecUnit has only been given limited permissions to access security systems on the station, it has been offered payment for its services and it now has to figure out a locked room mystery in which a corpse has been moved from a murder scene without anyone being caught by the security sensors.
I actually found this a little more fun than the previous book, probably because the pace is easy and there isn't a lot of combat. In fact, when it looks like we might be winding up for a huge fight-scene it THANKFULLY doesn't eventuate. I always feel like going to sleep when we get into blow by blow battles.
Graphic: Slavery, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation
Moderate: Xenophobia
etherealisnt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
I know a “fuck off” when I hear one. So I fucked off.
The annoyance and sarcasm was palpable in this one. It was so fun to see Murderbot from this angle, kind of "fuck it, I'll just do it" energy. Murderbot really transformed into a detective, going on clue hunts with its restricted access (I can't imagine keeping the promise to not hack when needed, but more power to you). Murderbot had to be clever and get information the "right" way... Murderbot did get to to show off ;)
Senior Indah (head of Preservation Station Security) and everyone else was super skeptical and untrusting. I kept alternating between pissed and sad - the way Murderbot was treated was just not it, BUT it did get better by the end. Everyone got me banging my head on a table while Murderbot had to deal with human stupidity. One exception will be Gurathin and Ratthi who became Murderbot's little sidekicks.
All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Gun violence, and Cursing
Minor: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail
picotly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
Moderate: Violence, Trafficking, Police brutality, and Gun violence
Minor: Murder
Imagination of a "good" police force still does the work of "some good cops" which is 😐😐