Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

14 reviews

luigimamizer's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, and Death

yenskier_enthusiast's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

My poor poor Ciri :( I feel so bad for her, the horrible things she goes through and the way her pure innocents is lost makes my heart hurt :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Self harm

thenoboshow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Sexual harassment, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Slavery, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Violence, War, Vomit, Cursing, Blood, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Trafficking

mcmeiss's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Abandonment, Murder, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, War, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Torture, and Genocide

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Cursing, Animal death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Excrement, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

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

opinkb's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, War, Cursing, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

halfacenturyreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Rape and Domestic abuse

lynnloveshobi's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Stalking, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Suicide, Misogyny, War, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Pedophilia, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Child abuse, Body shaming, and Abandonment

the_midwest_library's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This is hard to write a review for, on the one hand the book itself compared to the others in the world has been the weakest for me. There is significant political intrigue in this book but at times felt dense and dry. However the world continues to grow and the main characters are absolutely wonderful. If I wanted just on this 3 stars. 

However the ending of the book is disappointing in terms of writing that includes child SA that not only seems so unnecessary to the story/plot/characters but also seems to have very little impact on the aforementioned elements after the fact. It seemed to be included for shock value alone and frankly wasn't even well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

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