Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

10 reviews

breamfish1138's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

Sapkowski walked so George R.R. Martin could run. If you've not read the previous Witcher books you'll be lost as hell, but if so, you'll likely bloody love it. Closest thing I can describe it as is Apocalypse Now with swords.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Rape, War, Alcohol, Biphobia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Pregnancy, and Violence

mcmeiss's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, War, Vomit, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Body horror, Animal death, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Stalking, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Torture, and Cursing

Minor: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Excrement

izraehl's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Animal death, Cursing, Sexism, Miscarriage, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Trafficking, Torture, Violence, and War

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

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

tilo's review against another edition

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

Dieser Teil der Hexerreihe führt fort, was die Vorgänger schon so hervorragend erreichen und führt darüber hinaus einige sehr bedeutsame Charaktere ein, die ich bereits aus den Videospielen kannte und nun besser verstehe.
Exakt 300 Seiten braucht es bis meine Lieblingscharakterin

Yennefer

endlich wieder auftauchte und trotzdem (oder gerade deshalb durch die Spannung) hat sich "Feuertaufe" so fesselnd und schnell gelesen. 
Bemerkswert ist auch das Weiterführen der gleichgeschlechtlichen Liebesbeziehung

von Ciri

und die Betonung, dass nur Schwangere selbst entscheiden sollten, ob sie einen Schwangerschaftsabbruch durchführen wollen (dies wurde bereits früher in der Reihe schon etabliert, kam hier aber noch intensiver vor).
Ich bin hin und weg von dieser Reihe!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Torture, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Slavery

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

goizi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

rachaelbunny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide, Body shaming, Incest, and Infidelity

spaghettibooplesnoot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is a review of the audiobooks narrated by  Peter Kenny. Kenny has a great voice for this and does a fantastic job of giving everyone's voice a distinct sound making it easier to know who's talking even when a lot of new characters get added at once.  Geralt has a british accent like everyone else and not an american one which is a nice change from the tv series and games. the elves and nilfgaard are the only people without british accent which I found a little uncomftable but don't know the reasons for making this choice.

This book fully embodies and made me realise why I love witcher so much. it's not about kings and queens it's about middle people not quite peasants and not quite nobles which is something pretty special for fantasy like this. it also meanders and doesn't have conventional beginnings, middles and end; it feels more like an epic poem long and meandering where the story teller decides to go off on long tangents for no reason other than them feeling like it. This format really suits an audiobook and Peter Kenny has a great voice for it that's both soothing but not droney, like some fantasy narrators can be. 

This book takes place in the middle of a missive war. it doesn't shy away or glorify the nasty bits of it and i have done my best to add cw for everything. There is a lot of sexual violence towards women but never from any of the main charecturs and is always portraid as wrong and discustring. there are some other cw there weren't tags for so I added them in at the bottom but they do give spoilers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Torture, Sexual violence, and Gore

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, and Slavery

cw for abortion/miscarriage. there was tag for this put it's relitivly graphic and central to the story and gets dwelled on quite a bit