Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

11 reviews

rickireadss's review against another edition

4.5

WOW I LOVED THIS! one of my goals this year is to venture outside of my comfort in the romance genre and only reading books that have a romance plot/subplot, and this was my first of the year. this series came highly recommended by two of my online friends, and they did not miss!! i truly loved this and immediately went and put the rest of the series on hold at my library. the narrator did such a great job & i really like being in murderbot's head. i'm looking forward to continuing this series & seeing where murderbot goes from here.

content warnings:

violence, gun violence, death, slavery, injury/injury detail, murder, gore, body horror, blood, suicide attempt, confinement, medical trauma, medical content, war, mass/school shootings, self harm, trafficking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, and Medical trauma

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

peachmoni's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.0

Everybody said this book/series was funny. I didn't laugh or even smile once. 😩

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Body horror, Racism, Slavery, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

loxeletters's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Short but very fun! Looking forward to reading the sequels

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

rtaire's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

maeverose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

My possible adhd made it really difficult to focus while reading this. It took me a while to get through because I had to re read things over and over for them to stick. I’m pretty sure that was just a me thing and not a problem with the book.

That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Literally halfway into the first chapter I already loved Murderbot, and grew to love it even more as the story went on. I related to it’s social discomfort a lot lol (Lot’s of parallels to autism, I felt like). I liked the humor, I actually laughed out loud several times. I really liked the worldbuilding and the way things were subtly explained to the reader without feeling like they were being explained. I liked the human characters (especially Mensah) but I feel like the only character that was fully fleshed out was Murderbot. It is a novella so of course with that many characters not all of them are gonna get the same amount of focus but I do wish they were a little more developed. Maybe if there had been a smaller cast of characters that would’ve been better. I liked the mystery at first but was a little unsatisfied with it in the end. 

I’m still going to go check out the second book from my library right away.

My feelings about the mystery reveal (major spoilers):

I didn’t love the reveal that GrayCris was just killing people because they found something that was super valuable. I kinda hoped it would’ve been something more interesting, that feels so.. boring? I also don’t know that I buy anyone going that far for money, especially because neither DeltFall nor PreservationAux knew about the remnants when they were killed/pursued, so it wasn’t like they were a current threat to GrayCris’s future fortune. I think it would’ve been cool if it took more of a horror approach and had aliens coming after them or something lol. But this isn’t marketed as horror so obviously I can’t really be mad it didn’t go that route.. and to be fair the humor would’ve felt out of place then... apparently I don’t know what I want

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Minor: Cursing, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

There is some implied gore, but never any super explicit descriptions. I really don’t like gore and never at any point was grossed out but if you’re super sensitive to that kind of thing I’d still be cautious.

sexualedward's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

 Murderbot is one of my new favorite characters now. I LOVED it, but felt it should have been longer. Felt character’s individual moment to shine, story moments, and build up to moments should have been more to them. Absolutely will be continuing the series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Slavery, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Classism

hawksrye's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Slavery, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Outing

Minor: Physical abuse and Grief

laurajones's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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: Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Slavery and Mass/school shootings

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.25

I did not think I would like a book series called murderbot at all but I was wrong. Delightful! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery