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Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

11 reviews

izraehl's review

adventurous funny tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Racism, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Animal death, Cursing, Sexism, Miscarriage, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Trafficking, Torture, Violence, and War

starsfall's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War, Rape, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Misogyny, Blood, Child abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

bookaholic_in_wonderland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Death, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Misogyny, Violence, Animal death, Blood, War, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Rape

camoo3032's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Sexism, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Excrement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Colonisation, Vomit, Biphobia, Child abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide

natalie809's review

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-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

4.75

I'm not going to pretend that sapkowski is the best writer who ever lived, or that there is nothing wrong with this book, but omg, i love this book. i love geralt's hansa. Amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Rape, War, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism and Abandonment

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Dieser Teil der Hexerreihe führt fort, was die Vorgänger schon so hervorragend erreichen und führt darüber hinaus einige sehr bedeutsame Charaktere ein, die ich bereits aus den Videospielen kannte und nun besser verstehe.
Exakt 300 Seiten braucht es bis meine Lieblingscharakterin

Yennefer

endlich wieder auftauchte und trotzdem (oder gerade deshalb durch die Spannung) hat sich "Feuertaufe" so fesselnd und schnell gelesen. 
Bemerkswert ist auch das Weiterführen der gleichgeschlechtlichen Liebesbeziehung

von Ciri

und die Betonung, dass nur Schwangere selbst entscheiden sollten, ob sie einen Schwangerschaftsabbruch durchführen wollen (dies wurde bereits früher in der Reihe schon etabliert, kam hier aber noch intensiver vor).
Ich bin hin und weg von dieser Reihe!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Torture, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Slavery

kalisaur's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The first half of this was so slow, it felt like basically nothing happened the first 140 pages. There's so much Sapkowski just references during the first two books, it seems weird that this one is almost just a filler to put the players in the right spots for the next part of the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, War, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Rape, Miscarriage, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Slavery

goizi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

chronographia's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Where the earlier books set the scene, introduced our dramatic personae, and generally got the ball rolling, it is here that it starts to gain momentum. It will be helpful at this point in the story to start making a flowchart of different characters & their storylines. Also—despite Dianna Wynne Jones’ opinion about fantasyland maps—google the Witcher map that Netflix put out, it will be useful as everything starts to go into motion. And be sure to have Tower of Swallows on hand because you’re going to want to go straight on to the fourth book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

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

emmeline's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Miscarriage

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual content