Reviews with content warning for Sexism - Le Temps du mépris

I feel like it was not bad but not exceptional, besides being very slow, it was particularly full of politics that could have been made less lengthy.. I'm really intrigued about what's going to happen next so i will keep reading, but again some stuff it's waaay too long..

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adventurous dark tense 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? Yes

3.0

Felt pretty meh about this book to be honest. A lot of the issues this series has with sexism were at the forefront in this one and a lot of the character development felt rushed or happened off page because of events that had nothing to do with said characters???? I can for sure see why some reviewers have said the prefer the short story collections to the novels in this series because that's about where I am right now. Hoping I like the next book more. The first half was way better than the second half in my opinion, but the sudden turn it took in the middle was where a lot of the poor execution of character development came in for me.

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camoo3032's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

4.25

The author is a genius at choosing which perspective to write from. It's this creative storytelling that makes it so interesting to read

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maissi's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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greciamj1958's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.25

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tilo's review against another edition

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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

Wie immer: Unglaublich gute Fantasy und die Story ist fesselnd.
Besonders spannend finde ich nach wie vor wie facettenreich die Charaktere sind, denn hier kommen so viele verschiedene Motive aufeinander, Gruppierungen mit unterschiedlichsten Interessen und trotzdem hat jeder mit jedem irgendwie zu tun, wodurch ein faszinierendes Netz gespannt wurde.

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1.0

So I decided to give this series another shot and boy do I regret it. And the funny thing is I was going to give it 3 stars. Like was it a sexist garbage, yes, but no more so than the previous instalments and I could possibly ignore that for the story right up until the last part and more on that at the end. Overall the structure of this book was really weird. The culmination happened like in the middle and then the rest of the book was weird and downright offensive and disgusting the last 20%, I increased the speed for the audio to like 1.75 for it to be over finally so that I can move on with my life. There was barely any Yennefer or Jaskier in this, and they are mostly the reason I even decided to read the series in the first place. There isn't a single woman in this series that's hasn't been sexually assaulted. Here are my random notes, taken while listening:

• Someone is actually called Fabio lmaoo
• I am at the age where I am very fucking annoyed with stupid teenagers in fantasy, Ciri please everyone wants to kill you be a bit more fucking careful
• The author managing to describe a woman extremely male-gazy from the literal POV of Cirila a child, a talent truly
• Wow the women slut-shaming for the clothes they wear Jesus, and being absolutely disgusting to each other awful.
• The fuck kind of important women obedience is Vilgeforz on about??
• I swear the word contempt is repeated so many times in this book. Like every second page, no I did not fucking forget the book is called Time Of Contempt you can fucking stop beating me over the head with it.
• Wow Ciris entire importance being bottled down to who she marries and her future sons and nothing about her at all is so stupid and sexist.
• The narrator singing is still the most awful thing.
• Oh wow love the "if you rape any women do it quietly" advice simply fucking love that
• This whole spiel about unicorns thinking it's suspicious for older women to be virgins and preferring young virgins is the most ridiculous sexist thing this book has thrown at me yet. Ofc it's female virgins only. Have male virgins ever been offered in sacrifice in any form of media in the world, I am genuinely asking?
• Why the fuck does Ciris crotch hurt?? Uhh I honestly don't want to go back and check anymore, I don't need to know.
• Rapefest in the last 20ish % of the book singlehandedly made this from 3 to 1 star.

So this is what happens in the end:

Ciri is captured by a band of I believe Nifgardian soldiers who threaten to rape her multiple times. She escapes and is rescued by a band of vigilantes. A boy from the band tries to rape her and is stopped by a girl that helped rescue her. And then that same girl proceeds to rape Ciri who finally "resigned" to being raped and even sleeps in the arms of the girl. The next day Ciri is so traumatised she tries to "wash away something that can never be washed away"(this specific part is giving me flashbacks to Mat being raped in Wot) but still she stays with this band. Oh and after that, we are also given a description of how the girl that raped Ciri was also sexually assaulted. Oh and Ciri is fucking 13 this entire fucking time.

Like what the fuck??? What the actual fuck!??! Fuck this book, fuck this series, fuck Andrzej Sapkowski and everything he stands for I am fucking done. I will only watch the show and they can make it as fucking fanfiction and made up as they want I don't fucking care as long as there isn't a sexual assault every 5 min I will be fine.

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