Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Baptism of Fire, by Andrzej Sapkowski

10 reviews

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

excepto's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Wolniejsza od innych części, pokazuje dogłębnie okrucieństwo wojny, i to jak nawet w nim znajdywać momenty piękna. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Animal death, Murder, Blood, Alcohol, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death, Cursing, Gore, Genocide, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

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

lqne's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Religious bigotry, Addiction, Alcohol, War, and Violence

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Abortion, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, and Blood

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

bobstick's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

A lovely book at a slower pace than the previous witcher books that almost solely focuses on building up characters and relationships, a lovely breathe of fresh air in the middle of the series, but not without some emotional moments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Murder, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Pregnancy, Rape, Animal death, Vomit, War, Cursing, and Torture

natalie809's review against another edition

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

kalisaur's review against another edition

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

theresablue's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Rape

chronographia's review against another edition

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