Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Halveksunnan aika by Andrzej Sapkowski, Tapani Kärkkäinen

4 reviews

goblinscribe's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book makes it feel like Ciri just exists so the author can mention her underage private parts hurting or feeling pleasure. Her virginity comes up often and, towards the end of the book, is placed in peril several times in a row during a deluge of r*pe related plot. Idk what happened. The other books have been mild to medium cringe with the women characters. This one feels like extra creepy and uncomfortable.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Gore

jaedia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, War, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Confinement

Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, Rape, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Classism, Racism, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Violence

camoo3032's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Rape, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Misogyny, War, Death, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Confinement, Miscarriage, Animal death, Homophobia, Slavery, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Suicidal thoughts

purelytheoretical's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

something I'd forgotten between the first time I read this and this re-read is that this book (and a lot if not all of the rest of the witcher novels) has at most an episodic type of plot. when listening to the audiobook, I was shocked to discover that what felt like the climax of the story took place less than half the way through, and was not followed by any sort of higher-stakes "real" climax near the end. the plot is fine, but it just doesn't have the flow that a lot of us are accustomed to. I don't know if this is by virtue of its being thoroughly Polish in origin, maybe this is folktale vibes I'm getting? but it's certainly a trip to get used to.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual assault

It's not clear what the age difference is between Ciri and her attackers, they themselves are probably late teens at the oldest, but they do describe her as a child so I thought I'd cover that base just in case. The rape is near the end of the story, and a fairly short scene, but it is with a pair of people Ciri has just decided to trust and one after the other in a very horribly manipulative way that will make you hate these characters when they come back in the following book(s).