4.0 AVERAGE

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
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

Pacing in this book is quite different from other entries in the series. I really enjoyed the different structure, it felt fresh and I liked finding out more and more about what actually happened as Ciri told it. Lots of things get pay off in this one as well as new things being set up for the final novel.
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

If you’ve read this far, it’s more of the same. Continues the Witcher story with the same type of storytelling as the last few books. It barely wavers from the first stories that it seems like one long story cut into bits rather than several books.
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

Full review on my blog coming soon!


YES! Sapkowski did it. This novel is wonderfully exciting and finally stuff is happening.
First of all, I like how he presents the story to us. Ciri is talking to an old hermit recounting what happened to her. So, we get bits of her (kind of) being stuck with him interspersed with her story. It's nice!
There is a huge amount of fucked up shit going on, but by now I was aware that Sapkowski wouldn't get past that. That aside, the story really was thrilling.
Basically, here we get everything the previous book lacked. It's fast-paced, exciting, there's development and the story is finally going somewhere.
Yennefer is also back in the game. She's a great character and I love that we get to read more about her! Of all the Yennefers we've had so far, this one is probably my favorite.
Speaking of different versions of characters. Ciri really developed through these novels and this is the first time I actually like her. Before she annoyed me a great deal as she kept acting like a total brat, but now I'm feeling her. Let's hope Sapkowski keeps this up because right now he's going strong!
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated