Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

System Collapse by Martha Wells

4 reviews

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

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

evrunira's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-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

3.5

Nothing very interesting in the plot but a great transition into exploring murderbot's inner psyche

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, and Colonisation

I wasn't very thrilled to discover that we were still in the same plotline on the same planet when starting the book, and I find the main plot quite bland and forced. However, I was pleasantly surprised to be able to learn more about Murderbot's inner emotional state. Here it is at the most vulnerable we have seen, and we finally see it start to process the events of the past books. Murderbot has constantly been caring for Mensa's emotional well-being while neglecting its own mental health and it has finally come to a head. I am happy to see the character development progress in this new direction and I hope the plot is able to advance and complement this further.