skurtyka89 's review for:

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I actually enjoyed this book more than the first. I feel like it was a little faster paced. The plot was good with a little more action, but also uneven and jumpy. It bounced back and forth between two plots and at some points was difficult to follow. The technical jargon was a bit excessive too. I liked some characters, others were really annoying. Murderbot confounds me sometimes too as a lot of the times it’s words and actions don’t match. It acts more human in this book, but it’s humanness is depicted as either a moody teenager or a scared child. This is not my favorite series, but I will probably keep reading it because the stories are short, quick and mildly entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Stalking