Ryofire’s Reviews > Season of Storms > Status Update

...I'm not sure if this is railing against socialism or imperialism, but it seems to be conflating the both of them by saying "this person who believes in medicare for all also believes in the mantra "always carry a big stick" and forget the first part of that saying".

The problem with a bad or failed parody when I legit do not know if it's parody, still, is that... I just don't know. Like Sapkowski will drop anti-choice rhetoric one book, how the patriarchy uses anti-choice rhetoric to control women the next, and then this nonsense shows up: “The results of overpopulation may be disastrous” and like... what do I make of this, exactly?

I'm not sure if this is copaganda or not: "your relative would be a better accountant than an investigator. With him it's nothing but books, legal codes, articles, rules. Well, that and evidence, evidence and once again that evidence of his." Or simply a lack of understanding what an accountant does.

I will give kudos for having lobster as food for poor people in Ye Olden Times before overfishing fucked us over and rich people took that, too.

"I'm going to finish this book" I say and then open it up to "Geralt looked around. Two scantily dressed young women were pleasuring each other on a large chaise longue [the book spelling] in the furthest corner of the chamber. Watching them, while feeding a dog at the same time, was a small, inconspicuous, hunched and unremarkable man".

There's a section about how anti-choice rhetoric is used by the patriarchy to control women and keep them subservient. Well, maybe Sapkowski did change a little between "Baptism of Fire" and this.

Oh she crossed her legs "provocatively", what a change of pace.

And we're already at a female character showing off her cleavage and making the men lose their few brain cells. Color me utterly unsurprised that 17 years made precisely no difference on someone's writing priorities.