Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

13 reviews

nerdkitten's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-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: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Violence, Xenophobia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Classism, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Sexual violence, War, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Death of parent, Biphobia, and Racial slurs

akirma's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Racism, Blood, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Cursing, Confinement, Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual content

amelia_d's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-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? It's complicated

2.5

I'm quite disappointed to be honest, but my feelings about the book are very mixed so it's quite hard to give it a star rating that feels right.
The main positive for me is the incredible, detailed and original world building. I felt really engrossed in the world and loved learning more about how this world works.
For the most part I also found the story very compelling and intriguing, although it is quite scattered in a real-worldy kind of way which I'm aware some people didn't like.

Despite all that, the negatives for me almost made it unreadable at times. The main issue for me was that I found Kvothe thoroughly unlikeable, for most of the book he's constantly bragging about everything he does and how brilliant he is at everything he tries. I found this very grating. However it was almost unreadable due to the way Kvothe talks about women. I won't get into the details so this can remain spoiler free but at times I felt like I was reading a fanfic written by a 14 year old boy or an incel. I was cringing and sending pics to my friends/boyfriend of some paragraphs because I actually couldn't believe what I was reading. It felt very much like reading an incel's sexual fantasy who wishes that they could be Kvothe and I absolutely hated it. (also mild spoiler, there's a bit where Kvothe almost literally says "not all men" to a SA victim, seriously.)
So I am very torn. As I say, the story is compelling and intriguing and the world building is very impressive but at times the writing got so bad in terms of female characters in particular that I really don't know that I could bring nyself to read the 3rd book if it's ever completed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

darkefyres's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent, Classism, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

acasiamae's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

superdaintycate's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is such a great middle book, even with no final book likely to follow. I love a series that is truly a series and expects you to read the story in order if you read it at all. The language in this book is even more rich and nuanced with whole sections of tricky little iambic cleverness that is not only clever but serves the characterization perfectly. Do I have several dissertations on women and sexual assault in fantasy? Of course I do and I'll leave it to the real academics to do the hard work on that. I hate that I have to give great books a pass in order to read great fantasy by anyone other than NK Jemisin. Please start writing better, everyone else.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence

adithyanair's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective slow-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

clapyourshands's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It feels so melancholy to finish this book and know we’ll never find out the end of these characters. Even if the final book were written, and it had a tragic ending, it would feel different (better?) than the story dying before it’s time. 

I enjoyed this book a lot, although a couple parts of Kvothe’s adventures seemed a bit out-of-the-blue and poorly built? Idk how to explain it, but they seemed unrealistic, which is silly to say for a fantasy novel lol I suppose there are plenty of people in the book who also thought some of Kvothe’s adventures were unrealistic as well, so I’m in good company 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Trafficking, Sexual violence, and Rape

crystalmethany's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Murder, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Misogyny and Grief