Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Die Dame vom See by Erik Simon, Andrzej Sapkowski

11 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

shiveryteacup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

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

ladywhiskers's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

marinaxanna's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

Love to hate it, hate to love it—thank god its over, because this is where the honeymoon phase with the series finally ended for me. It’s like Sapkowski just gave up and I, too, stopped believing in this story.

Three books of build up, interesting characters, interesting cultures and worlds—only to have it end like this, with the lackluster that is the Tower of the Swallow and the Lady of the lake.

Reducing strong, intelligent women who had compelling narratives into mindless Geralt simps while throwing around misogynistic takes.

Oh and not to mention more vile, completely unnecessary SA scenes/tropes for Ciri. Seriously what the fuck was up with that Gramps BS?

And all that for an anti climactic, cliché as fuck ending that leaves more questions than answers. It felt incredibly unsatisfactory.

Mila, Regis and Cahir deserved better. And I mean that as in, their deaths were incredibly underwhelming, with happening in the same 4/5 pages apart and with the bare minimum of impact. I didn’t even take it seriously. They went from all OP/skilled to dropping like flies in the last book.

Geralt and Yennefers characters were just butchered. Both of them felt 2D as hell by the end of the book and it seemed like the author just wanted to be done with the series. 
Well, so did I—Almost dnf. Reading this was just not enjoyable for me at all. I forced myself to finish it since its the last part. Skipped the entirety of chapter 7 when it was clear it was another senseless subplot with Men Being Men TM with a bunch of characters i would never read about again. Seriously, who needs so many detours and timejumps to shape a plot???? 

Anyway. Goodbye to this series. This book has killed any love I had for these characters. I’m done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest

starsfall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia

Okay wow this book was a lot. There were many plottwist that left me quite confused. I really loved how there were so mant different povs, so many characters. Although sometimes I was a bit lost with so many names and places.

So that's that, the end of the witcher series, in hindsight I should have read season of storms after this one but i'll just reread the epilogue now. The ending kinda broke me, I feel like it was incredibly sad and depressing. And I know that the whole mood of the series should have indicated that there wasn't gonna be a perfect happily ever but still, I was a bit dissapointed. So many characters died.

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Häxkarlsflickan Ciri har vandrat genom en portal till en annan värld och en annan tid. Även här finns det de som vill bestämma över hennes liv, något hon aldrig tycks kunna komma ifrån. Under tiden letar både vänner och fiender efter henne, framför allt häxkarlen Geralt. Men kriget mot Nilfgaard är oundvikligt och alla kommer inte att överleva. 

Jag blir lite förvirrad av hoppen mellan de olika historierna och de olika berättarna, det är lite svårt att få tag på den röda tråden. Ibland kommer jag heller inte ihåg vilka karaktärerna är - de är ju så otroligt många! Samtidigt är det här en bok jag kan läsa i lite då och då eftersom jag är bekant med världen och huvudkaraktärerna. Bitvis är boken spännande och intressant, men jag börjar nog bli klar med Witcher-världen. Blev lite förvånad när den här boken började kännas mer och mer som en avslutande del, med tanke på att det finns ytterligare en bok i serien, men det verkar som om den sista delen utspelar sig före huvudserien. Med andra ord så är "Damen i sjön" avslutande och jag behöver egentligen inte läsa "Ovädrets tid". Den verkar likna samlingarna med kortare berättelser som introducerade mig för den här världen och som jag, så här i efterhand, tror jag tyckt bäst om, så jag kommer att läsa den så småningom. Men det kanske dröjer ett tag...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

pensandpicks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Der letzte Teil der Hauptreihe ist wie alle anderen Bücher in der Reihe genial. Der Anfang ist sehr kurios und ich war etwas skeptisch, aber der Subplot

mit Nimue und Condwiramurs

hat dann alles in ein spannendes Licht gerückt. Einige der Höhepunkte des Romans haben mich jedoch nicht so stark bewegt wie die Vorgänger, was einerseits daran lag, dass ich durch die Videospiele einer der größten Plottwists schon kannte und andererseits fand ich einige Momente sehr abgestumpft geschrieben und die Reaktionen der Charaktere haben mich teilweise verwundert. Das ist aber auf hohem Niveau angemerkt.
Das Ende ist sehr sonderbar. Man mag darüber denken, was man möchte, aber speziell zu diesem Teil hat es schon gepasst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Incest, Slavery, Torture, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Ableism and Colonisation