Reviews tagging 'War'

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

8 reviews

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.5

Odličan početak sage i jedna od boljih fantazija napisana u zadnjih nekoliko godina

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Death, Stalking, and Murder

hbrugoto's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I found reading this book more fun than the tv show. I feel it helps me understand the main character more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Sexism, and Sexual content

ohthatsgrayt's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, and War

jewelkr's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

My adult kid gave me this book as a birthday present because we enjoyed watching the Netflix series together.  This is one of the cases when the moving image production is better than the book.  I'd like to say it's because the stories were written in the previous century by a boomer male and obviously men's opinions of women/people have changed so much since then but regrettably  I can't - women's lives are still a full of  inequity and fear.  I will say that the people who produced the series addressed a lot of the absolutely disgusting misogyny in the book, as well as restringing the story in a cohesive manner and giving Geralt a personality.  Reading one account after another of what a woman (always referred to as a "girl" by the author) looks like, whether she passes the male-imposed standard for attractiveness, the incredible, cliche'ed detail of their breast-enhancing, thigh-revealing, hip thrusting outifts (compared to the male characters of whom very little is said about what they wear), the sexualization of the fight scenes between the Witcher and his female foes (always thighs and breasts exposed during a viscous fight to the death), the opening scene of an actual girl sexually attacking the Witcher in his sleep as part of her priestess training - it was all so gross that I had a hard time processing the stories behind these disturbing revelations of what men think when they see women.  The stories were interesting, although I was hoping for more of Geralt's back story, and you have to keep in mind that these stories preceded the Game of Thrones celebrity not to find them kind of hackneyed.  Sadly, no matter what male writers imagine, women are always relegated to one of three roles - virgin or girl I'd like to have sex with, whore or in this case demon, and female bringing beverages to men.  If we are imagining a different world, couldn't we fantasize something different for the women for change?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, War, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

belladonnashrike's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.25

“yennefer…yen.”
“yen,” she repeated, giving in to him completely. “nobody’s ever called me that. say it again.”
“yen.”
“geralt.”

GOD.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Incest, Infertility, Rape, Vomit, and War

burnt_milk's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Fun and interesting in places. However. I got up to Renfri and I adore her but I'm so sick of how they write female characters. In-between complex discussions of monsterhood it rly has the gall to say 'Renfri was silent for some time, fiddling with a string of pearls wound three times around her shapely neck before falling teasingly between her breasts, their curves just visible through the slit of her jacket.' like what the hell? it takes me out every time and is more often than not entirely unnecessary. Apart from that some cool folklore concepts explored and I love the base concept of witchers and their roles in society, just hard to stomach the misogyny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Racism, Rape, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Incest

katmahalia's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I will be completely honest and say I didn’t follow the plot of the short stories that closely because I listened to the audiobook while playing video games, but from what I heard I really enjoyed it. The pacing did not feel too slow as it can in fantasy adventuring stories, and the action never felt disjointed or separated from the plot. And I liked the whole the-princesses-are-the-monsters twist on fairy tale plots, it was a nice nod to the fact that every fairy tale and legend has a bigger story behind it. 

My only gripe: the love interests are not interesting or lovely, mostly just annoying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Ableism

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and War

graceless_grace's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Incest, Infertility, Rape, Vomit, and War