Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

34 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I had an emotion.

Needing to be alone to process emotions is such a realistic characteristic.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical trauma, Abandonment, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Death, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, and Self harm

cardaisy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Brb crying in the club at the ending

Loved this as usual! Though I will say the story felt less fleshed out than the first two. Despite being around the same page length, I feel like Martha Wells covered a lot more ground in the others than in this one, and I can't exactly say why. Maybe because Murderbot wasn't interacting as much with people (outside of Miki) for the most part of the book?

Really liked the dynamic that was explored between Murderbot and Miki and how their experiences as bots/constructs differed so much from each other 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Blood, Body horror, and Grief

parenthesis_enjoyer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Grief

quotablehedgehog's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I found it a little repetitive at some points with other Murderbot plots and found myself skimming over some details. But once the plot got going (about 1/3 of the way through), I was just as hooked as ever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Physical abuse, Medical content, Gore, Colonisation, and Cursing

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Minor: Slavery

ebp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Slavery, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Death and Grief

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I freaking love Murderbot. This installment was more compelling than the last and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I also like the overarching storyline throughout these novellas. I loved Miki!! And for some reason the humor in this one just hit different and I was cackling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Grief, Medical content, Slavery, and Murder

karin_goodreads's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

This is Murderbot series' third book, the story keeps going! Murderbot is trying to do it's thing and investigate GrayCris Corporation, but humans somehow keep getting involved and now it needs to protect them, even though it really wants to be left alone. There's also mentions of Murderbot's original crew and intrigue with the unaccounted SecUnit.

 I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.

It's always nice coming back to this series and the proof is very evident - I'm still reading and planning to take on the next part, because I really want to know how the whole thing with Murderbot going back to Dr. Mensah is going to turn out.
This time we got to see Murderbot interact with Miki (a human-form bot) and that was super interesting to see.
Murderbot did miss ART tho (me too buddy). I still hope that in later installments we get to see them working together again :)

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

Murderbot was going through it this time! The sarcasm, annoyance and also the oh shit moments made it even more relatable than before. With every story it's becoming more and more human-like. The sass and the personality has always been there, but there's genuine feelings coming through, you know what I mean? Well, it's going to be very interesting to watch, I can't imagine what's coming next...

Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Cursing, Grief, Kidnapping, and Medical content

shepardsolbear's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief and Death