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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-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
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
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
Rating: 4⭐️
I really enjoyed this installment in the Witcher series. It was refreshing to have a Geralt and Dandelion adventure again to help break up the crazy politics and wars going on. I didn’t love it as much as some of the other books mainly because the politics made me very confused and it was hard to keep track of everything.
I am super excited to finish the series though and finally get some closure.
I really enjoyed this installment in the Witcher series. It was refreshing to have a Geralt and Dandelion adventure again to help break up the crazy politics and wars going on. I didn’t love it as much as some of the other books mainly because the politics made me very confused and it was hard to keep track of everything.
I am super excited to finish the series though and finally get some closure.
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm leaving out a star because there wasn't enough Ciri and the Ciri that was there was a bit underwhelming. I have heard that it will pick up and be more action packed in coming novels??? so I am excited!!
Just noticed the dates. I guess it took me a full year with lots of stops and starts to finish this book. I listened to it as the other ones because I cannot stay focused to save my life and I now read books while I crochet and it makes life good. But I was so ridiculously busy with moving and school starting and exams and all those kind of things that reading pretty much fell to the wayside in summer and I only picked it back up this month. (Oh and I listened to Radio Silence in the summer because I needed a break from the Witcher, I guess).
Look. I haven't been a super fan of the Witcher when it went all sexist and annoying and I've written and talked about it... BUT. This book was a lot better. Less boobs and hair and frilly dresses (just the sorceresses but I guess it was to make some kind of statement about wanting to fit in, or whatever) and more psycho-analysing Geralt to be a confused lone wolf who really needs his friends. I loved that part in the book where Geralt's company decided that they were a "fellowship" (I see what you did there) and were all like I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU TO GO ALONE YOU SILLY MAN who wanted to call himself Roger??? ridiculous and hilarious.
Basically, all the characters are flawed, they're not perfect all the time, they get injured and fall behind and make mistakes. They say ridiculous things sometimes. What a company they end up with.
Again, there were parts where I had to go back, and listen again, and go back, and listen again, because why do these people all have complicated names and places and things also have complicated names. The background lore about the elven blood and the Lara gene??? Lost me multiple times. I am thankful for the internet and the Witcher fan wiki (proceed with caution because there are spoilers) for helping me out there. I also printed out a map and am using sticky notes to indicate where every (to me) major character is, because they're all spread out and it was proving difficult to picture in my mind where they were.
There's a new season coming out of the television series, and it will be the last with Cavill as Witcher. I have to say, I'm really curious how they will tackle some of the characters and some of the story arcs. Because it was the tv series that got me interested, but I've now come to like the book series a lot. Sure, some of the things I need to reread or catch up on the details but even with a messy brain like mine and taking a year to read, I can follow along the main story just fine and I'm invested.
This book is where one of the 'baddies' turned into a fellow whom I now really like, where we got even more politics, scheming, dwarves, fighting, vampires - that turn invisible?, strong female characters, a jade statuette... Less monster fighting, less sexual intercourse and innuendo. We have magic users exclaiming they don't understand genetics. Neither do I, my friends, I still don't know how it all works with the real gene and the activator gene and the skipping here and there, but I will go along with this story because I'm invested now and this is a fantasy tale in which half the characters are already like 300 years old but looking 30. I'm not invested in genetics being realistic or not. Onwards to the druids! (I think.)
Just noticed the dates. I guess it took me a full year with lots of stops and starts to finish this book. I listened to it as the other ones because I cannot stay focused to save my life and I now read books while I crochet and it makes life good. But I was so ridiculously busy with moving and school starting and exams and all those kind of things that reading pretty much fell to the wayside in summer and I only picked it back up this month. (Oh and I listened to Radio Silence in the summer because I needed a break from the Witcher, I guess).
Look. I haven't been a super fan of the Witcher when it went all sexist and annoying and I've written and talked about it... BUT. This book was a lot better. Less boobs and hair and frilly dresses (just the sorceresses but I guess it was to make some kind of statement about wanting to fit in, or whatever) and more psycho-analysing Geralt to be a confused lone wolf who really needs his friends. I loved that part in the book where Geralt's company decided that they were a "fellowship" (I see what you did there) and were all like I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU TO GO ALONE YOU SILLY MAN who wanted to call himself Roger??? ridiculous and hilarious.
Basically, all the characters are flawed, they're not perfect all the time, they get injured and fall behind and make mistakes. They say ridiculous things sometimes. What a company they end up with.
Again, there were parts where I had to go back, and listen again, and go back, and listen again, because why do these people all have complicated names and places and things also have complicated names. The background lore about the elven blood and the Lara gene??? Lost me multiple times. I am thankful for the internet and the Witcher fan wiki (proceed with caution because there are spoilers) for helping me out there. I also printed out a map and am using sticky notes to indicate where every (to me) major character is, because they're all spread out and it was proving difficult to picture in my mind where they were.
There's a new season coming out of the television series, and it will be the last with Cavill as Witcher. I have to say, I'm really curious how they will tackle some of the characters and some of the story arcs. Because it was the tv series that got me interested, but I've now come to like the book series a lot. Sure, some of the things I need to reread or catch up on the details but even with a messy brain like mine and taking a year to read, I can follow along the main story just fine and I'm invested.
This book is where one of the 'baddies' turned into a fellow whom I now really like, where we got even more politics, scheming, dwarves, fighting, vampires - that turn invisible?, strong female characters, a jade statuette... Less monster fighting, less sexual intercourse and innuendo. We have magic users exclaiming they don't understand genetics. Neither do I, my friends, I still don't know how it all works with the real gene and the activator gene and the skipping here and there, but I will go along with this story because I'm invested now and this is a fantasy tale in which half the characters are already like 300 years old but looking 30. I'm not invested in genetics being realistic or not. Onwards to the druids! (I think.)
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated