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The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

8 reviews

timmytunter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Infidelity and Classism

lonelylooper's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug use, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

mcmeiss's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Pandemic/Epidemic

green_amaryllis's review

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

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

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

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

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

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

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

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

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

luciawolfie's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

The way women are portrayed in this book make me very uncomfortable. Also the ending makes no sense...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Murder

josefiina's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Sexual content, Torture, Medical content, and Cannibalism