Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski

6 reviews

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexism, Blood, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Rape, War, and Confinement

starsfall's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Child death, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Homophobia

spacerkip's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.0

I...sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, and Ableism

upthestairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Torture, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Classism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual violence, War, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

royalrainboww's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Transphobia and Suicide

purelytheoretical's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny slow-paced

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

3.0

I feel like nothing happened in this book. There are so many plot threads, so many unnecessary ones that tangle in as ways to more complicatedly explain simpler plot threads that already existed, and we're constantly moving forward and back in the course of events in a really distracting and unproductive way that just left me resenting the story I was being told. I'd love to see a breakdown of the POVs used for this book, cause I would bet that we spend half the time or less in the heads of our actual main characters here, Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer. 
There were some fun or interesting moments, for sure, but overall I would not say I had a good time with this book and I can see very clearly now why I never ended up finishing this book the first time around. HIGHLY recommend the audiobook for this one rather than trying to trudge through reading it yourself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

rape and sexual violence of all sorts is sort of peppered into probably almost every chapter as a way to make the world seem gritty. it isn't described in detail, and I don't believe anyone is actually raped within the text, but it is mentioned often enough that I upgraded it from minor to moderate. the same goes for sexism. both within the world, and a bit within the author's way of describing his female characters. it's not the worst, but it's not great. the adult/minor relationship is very very brief, pretty much doesn't happen at all, but is fairly graphic and we're in the minor's head as she considers entering into it. the pedophilia is slightly less brief but is purely the ramblings of one gross character, and everyone around her finds her "interests" pretty disgusting.