Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

12 reviews

embersbooknook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Damn I want there to be more of these books so bad.  I’m so bummed to be done with them now and will probably have a book hangover in short order🥲😅  
This last one was just as enjoyable as all the prior ones, and I enjoyed the <spoildet> extension of the adventure with the Barrish-Estranza drama because I really wanted to know what happened to that planet and its population after Network Effect.   

I love how Murderbot is just running around setting other secunits free also…I’m so here for that shit🥹  
It was so cool to be introduced to more of ART’s crew more in depth

- basically another awesome Murderbot adventure.  It’s like wee hours here so I have been gleefully irresponsible and now must go deal with the consequences of my actions tomorrow 😂 

The themes of the impact of story, narrative, and choice were powerful and moving,

and I love that they made a documentary to show the colonists their options and the truth.  That was so fucking dope - the power of stories is real!🥹 

I fucking love Murderbot and this whole universe and all the people and bots and constructs and etc. in it - I deeply hope there will be more adventures ahead.  Thank you Martha Wells, from the bottom of my heart, for creating such wonderful stories. 🤗

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Most of these things were brief mentions, although some things, like

whether the planet population would choose to go with the people that would, unbeknownst to them, enslave them,

were ongoing themes. Nothing terribly graphic, but definitely some at times somber tones. I am a sensitive reader and it wasn’t too much for me.

lonelylooper's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, Medical content, Trafficking, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pacifickat's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Really quite good, though I didn't realize I had some expectations that weren't met until it was the end of the book and some things hadn't happened.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I mean I guess it was good. I wanted more MB & ART interactions. Also, this might be more of a fandom building up wrong expectations thing, but I think more page time could have been spent on MB coping with its trauma. Its sudden turnaround at the end that's related to it felt like it had no build-up and was instead written to be a neat happy ending. But that makes no sense because this isn't even the last book in the series.

Rogue B-E secunit make appearances in future books pls pls pls pls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Slavery, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Outing, and Gaslighting

wilybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Confinement and Gore

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

I love the murderbot series and this follows directly from the events of network effect and carries on the enthralling events. Could barely put it down.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

julesadventurezone's review

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

This does a lovely job at expanding the story from the end of Network Effect. The cast of characters is well chosen

, though I did wish for more Three,

and I really like Murderbot's emotional journey through the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Slavery, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

As I’ve said upon finishing every book in this series, I love Murderbot. This story begins immediately where Network Effect (#5) ended. I found it essential to have that one fresh in my mind before reading this one (#7). (Number 6 is a standalone with the same characters.)

Murderbot is dealing with an evil Corporation - the kind it had escaped in the first book in the series - plus planetary colonists who are either ornery or outright unfriendly and the occasional infected agricultural bot intent on killing anything that appears to be human. 

In the middle of this mix of people and machines at cross purposes, Murderbot splits its time between saving its humans and watching its favorite soap operas. The thought of a robot killing machine loving soap operas is one of the more endearing features of these books.

Murderbot is more emotionally fragile here, with very low self esteem. It’s hard to see it feeling so unsure of itself and its abilities. We know how capable Murderbot is but it’s overwhelmed by the possibility that it will fail and all its humans and its bot friends will be killed. Its unusual vulnerability makes it especially sympathetic. The plot was satisfying and convoluted as always. 

Naturally I’m eager for the next book. Since this was just published, I know I’ll have to wait a while. So incredibly frustrating….

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Colonisation