Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski

6 reviews

mcmeiss's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Infertility, Rape, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Alcohol

lermaline's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ybel's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

Felt like a side quest in the best possible way. Nice to go back to more lowkey witcher stories without having the world about to end. Tho maintaining the political intrigue and a lot more actual witchering. Obviously not perfect and some stuff felt a bit unnecessarily uncomfortable; the authors portrayal of butch women.
Overall nice to round off the series, especially with that ambiguous epilogue and I did enjoy the unusual story structure of bouncing back and forth to interludes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Classism

kelpie91's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Blood, Excrement, and Abortion

knkoch's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

This was an engaging, quick read. It’s always easy to dive in to a Witcher book for me! And with this one, I’ve officially read them all. Overall, this was a single, contained adventure that occurs (mainly) before the events of the main series and, I think, Sword of Destiny. I still love The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny best, I think, as they’re the easiest to jump into and digest, and the parable structure feels the freshest, somehow. Season of Storms has fewer monsters and more slippery people in it. But lots of Dandelion makes up for that, somewhat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Torture

akirma's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.5

Bit of an unsatisfactory ending, otherwise entertaining

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol