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System Collapse by Martha Wells

28 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.

knerys's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Slavery

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

madamenovelist's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

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

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

dosxhime's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.25

God (mrs. martha wells), thank you for giviing me the murderbot diaries bc now I'm too emotional to function. I just love this series so much that it took over my brain for a good portion of the month. 

As for the review portion of this, I will say that I am a tiny bit confused on System Collapse. But I think that goes for every sci-fi book I read. I just have a hard time imagining this ginormous underground structure. I wanna say I do (after reading and thinking it over), but as I was into the book it was hard for me to follow the actions. 

However, I absolutely love how MB faced its mental trauma and PTSD, with it taking a small step towards its recovery. Just perfect. I was also very touched with the way MB used media to connect to the separatist, which made it feel like a very full circle moment. It was wonderful/engaging to see how MB and ART could work in a creative and informative manner to persuade and connect with humans, bloody wonderful. 

4.25 / 5 B

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

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

frantic_vampire's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

Murderbot continues to be one of the most relatable characters ever. I loved that we got to see more of MB realizing that it might need (just a bit of) help with some of the trauma that it’s faced in its life but also not wanting to touch any of it with a ten foot pole. It was so nice to see ART and the crew again. I love the shenanigans that they get into (and that they drag MB into). And I’m living for the all the MB sass and sarcasm! It was just so nice to be back in this series! System Collapse is getting four out of five stars.

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Content Warnings

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