Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

37 reviews

jessi_c's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Some of the casualness in Murderbot’s inner dialogue starts to blur the line between actual character and author. I want to continue to be in its head but it’s getting more difficult. Other than that, ARGH!! I LOVE MURDERBOT DIARIES!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Gun violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Death, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

dreadspawn's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Grief

fred___'s review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

sadhbh2525's review

adventurous emotional funny 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, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping and Grief

Minor: Medical content

q_bert13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

Super fun addition to the murderbot series. Happy to see the plot lines start to mix, and expirence another greatly written entry by Wells

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Vomit, and War

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, and Medical content

Minor: Confinement, Vomit, and Grief

fox_at_the_circus's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Another good book with Murderbot. It is a really great MC, I love how it always panics about everything, but still solves situations in ingenious ways. And how it doesn't want to care, but still does so much.
My favourite in this book was Miki, loved its interaction with its friends and Murderbot. I really appreciate how so far all books featured bots with non-regular relationships / interactions with humans, Murderbot, Art and Miki. That really makes the universe much more interesting and also sets the books in the series apart from one another.
I also enjoy, that there is an overarching plot, but the plot of every single book is still interesting and explores more of the whole universe and gives us more worldbuilding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content and Murder

ritabriar's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Murderbot gets to confront just how different it would be if it had been treated well, and it... doesn't like it. Murderbot has to keep taking breaks in order to have feelings. Also, once again, Murderbot is saving humans from their own bad decisions, whether or not it thinks that's a good idea. But they're good humans, so it's worth it. Mostly. Maybe. Probably.

Murderbot does this in a setting and situation that keeps ramping up the tension and increasing the stakes, believably if not realistically. It handles all of this with competency and social awkwardness, with help from episodes of Sanctuary Moon. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Major character death,

hair pulling

as part of attempted murder For those who prefer major spoilers, the person who dies is

Miki

. This death inverts the trope of

fridging, since this is this person's book, and fridging is cheap.

lailybibliography's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

I wasn’t annoyed at all. Not one bit.

I will never get over Miki dying thinking its first ever bot friend was mad at it. Screw you, Martha Wells (affectionate, devastated).

This instalment grew to be far more emotionally powerful and resonant than I expected. It broke my heart seeing Murderbot react so strongly to the possibility of humans and bots being equals, able to be trusted friends and companions with genuine love and respect for one another. For all its hilarious dark humour and misanthropic attitude, Murderbot is a deeply emotional, empathetic bot, and utterly traumatized by the violence its owners coerced into committing. I hope the reunion with Dr. Mensah gives it some of the kindness and tranquility it desperately deserves and needs.

Really hope we run into Don Abene sometime in the future novellas. I found her bond with Miki touching and fascinating and would love a more in-dept exploration of the (relatively) egalitarian universe hinted at outside the Corporation Rim. I love the diversity of the human experience Martha Wells has weaved into this world in regard to societal norms, structures and political systems. So much of classical sci-fi literature had a tendency to stick to generally homogeneous political conventions and power hierarchies (monarchies, nobility, grand authoritarian regimes, etc.); its refreshing to see the thriving existences of more… dare-i-say… socialist societies in our futures. I’m not sure if that’s the intended message in any way, but it’s a strangely hopeful one to me. 

((Obviously we have our archetypal hyper-capitalist, cyberpunk dystopia in Corporation Rim, but even that feels more realistic to our modern world with its constant over-surveillance and conglomerate indifference to human liveability than the neon-skies and desolate megacities of previous science fiction.))

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Slavery and Medical content