Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

19 reviews

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, War, Death, Blood, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Kidnapping, Sexism, Incest, and Vomit

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

chamm_chamm's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

starsfall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Racism, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Pedophilia

Okay wow this book was a lot. There were many plottwist that left me quite confused. I really loved how there were so mant different povs, so many characters. Although sometimes I was a bit lost with so many names and places.

Spoiler

So that's that, the end of the witcher series, in hindsight I should have read season of storms after this one but i'll just reread the epilogue now. The ending kinda broke me, I feel like it was incredibly sad and depressing. And I know that the whole mood of the series should have indicated that there wasn't gonna be a perfect happily ever but still, I was a bit dissapointed. So many characters died.

camoo3032's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Xenophobia, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Confinement, Murder, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abortion, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Vomit, Animal death, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Alcohol, Classism, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Cursing, Slavery, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Excrement, and Bullying

saltylane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

Like all the other books in the Witcher series, this one jumps back and forth between perspectives, and gives a lot of information that isn’t completely necessary or interesting. The writing style is descriptive but not necessarily excessively so. The story itself has a lot of twists and turns and mysteries. I’d say the ending was rather bittersweet. Also, there were a lot of things that didn’t really make too much sense for the characters that have developed over the past handful of books. There were also just a handful of times whenever an action was starting to peak, and then it just dropped down because there was some kind of intervention that just happened to happen at that moment.

I didn’t necessarily expect a happy ending for everyone… But at least an ending that actually had conclusions that really mattered or that made sense would’ve been nice. 

Overall, I rather enjoyed the series, despite its many flaws. With the switching perspectives, it did get confusing as to what was going on and what character was doing what. It often went to characters that I wasn’t really sure why they were even included… Unless they were just trying to close up plot lines? I don’t know; they didn’t really matter. It didn’t really seem very important that So-and-So died in such a way or succeeded in XYZ. Sure, sometimes it was nice to see what older characters that we hadn’t seen in a while were doing… But overall it wasn’t really important to the plot what was going on in their lives. 

The reader for this audiobook is very talented! He really knows how to manipulate his voice to the different characters and stick with it consistently. The voice acting  was also very good with emphasized emotions relevant to the scenes.

I’m really interested in seeing how the series on Netflix adapts all of the storylines. Hopefully it’s a little bit less convoluted…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, Self harm, Colonisation, Animal death, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Homophobia, Incest, Medical content, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Vomit

knkoch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This was a fitting end to the main series and the linear part of Geralt and Ciri’s story. It’s by far the longest, but it felt well-organized and thematically clear. I felt less confused or out on a limb than I have throughout some of the other books.

The changing storyteller aspect (telling parts of the story from later points in time, looking back, and/or from a distant storyteller) was occasionally irritating, as it felt like a way to slow down the most compelling parts of the narrative. But overall, it finally felt more appropriate to have so many narratives to jump between, as the many characters were better established by this point. By the final half, this reminded me strongly of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the way several disparate groups or characters are working in different parts of the world during an enormous war. A nice fellowship developed here, too. 

I’ve still got Season of Storms left, and then I’ll be all through with Witcher books! For awhile, at least. But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them and will be sad to turn that final page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Xenophobia

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Häxkarlsflickan Ciri har vandrat genom en portal till en annan värld och en annan tid. Även här finns det de som vill bestämma över hennes liv, något hon aldrig tycks kunna komma ifrån. Under tiden letar både vänner och fiender efter henne, framför allt häxkarlen Geralt. Men kriget mot Nilfgaard är oundvikligt och alla kommer inte att överleva. 

Jag blir lite förvirrad av hoppen mellan de olika historierna och de olika berättarna, det är lite svårt att få tag på den röda tråden. Ibland kommer jag heller inte ihåg vilka karaktärerna är - de är ju så otroligt många! Samtidigt är det här en bok jag kan läsa i lite då och då eftersom jag är bekant med världen och huvudkaraktärerna. Bitvis är boken spännande och intressant, men jag börjar nog bli klar med Witcher-världen. Blev lite förvånad när den här boken började kännas mer och mer som en avslutande del, med tanke på att det finns ytterligare en bok i serien, men det verkar som om den sista delen utspelar sig före huvudserien. Med andra ord så är "Damen i sjön" avslutande och jag behöver egentligen inte läsa "Ovädrets tid". Den verkar likna samlingarna med kortare berättelser som introducerade mig för den här världen och som jag, så här i efterhand, tror jag tyckt bäst om, så jag kommer att läsa den så småningom. Men det kanske dröjer ett tag...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Death

pensandpicks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, and Rape

ozreus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

Der letzte Teil der Hauptreihe ist wie alle anderen Bücher in der Reihe genial. Der Anfang ist sehr kurios und ich war etwas skeptisch, aber der Subplot

Spoiler

mit Nimue und Condwiramurs

hat dann alles in ein spannendes Licht gerückt. Einige der Höhepunkte des Romans haben mich jedoch nicht so stark bewegt wie die Vorgänger, was einerseits daran lag, dass ich durch die Videospiele einer der größten Plottwists schon kannte und andererseits fand ich einige Momente sehr abgestumpft geschrieben und die Reaktionen der Charaktere haben mich teilweise verwundert. Das ist aber auf hohem Niveau angemerkt.
Das Ende ist sehr sonderbar. Man mag darüber denken, was man möchte, aber speziell zu diesem Teil hat es schon gepasst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Ableism and Colonisation