4.0 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-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: Yes
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

I can't say it was my favorite out of the series. I felt it was a much slower pace than previous books mainly due to sections being recounted as a retelling of the past. 

O melhor livro da saga! Incrível o desenvolvimento da personagem da Ciri. Muito mais sanguinário e violento do que os anteriores. Mal posso esperar pelo desfecho da história. Andrzej Sapkowski é muito absoluto génio da literatura fantástica.

dnf'ing about 50% through. soz but i just cant do it anymore lol
i so wish these books were better because i love the characters. i'll just wait for the next witcher game i think

In this volume, Geralt and Yennifer are seperately searching for Ciri, who leaves the Rats with whom she'd been travelling to claim her destiny. Geralt and Yennifer are both tested by otherworldly forces.

Like most of these books, the pacing tends to be irregular. Sometimes it is exciting, sometimes it is excruciatingly dull. For high fantasy, the narrative tends to dwell on long and intricate debates between characters.
adventurous slow-paced
adventurous dark 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
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Tower of Swallows is basically a 16 hour chase scene as our main characters search for Ciri before the baddies find her, all the while Ciri, while recovering, tells her story to an old hermit who rescues her. Some of the book was great, dialogue, action, choices, but most was filler. These books would be a thousand times stronger if 50% of the fluff was edited out. (But I think that about a lot of books, and a lot of people don’t agree and love these lengthy tomes for the length and world building and character building.) 
 
I wish Geralt got to spend time actually being Geralt the witcher and being a strong character with an actually essential plot, but he seems so often unnecessary and weak in this book. The politics in this book were also so heavily politicking as usual and making my eyes glaze over in boredom, because there’s war and corruption and factions and who really knows or cares about who is on the good side or bad side when they’re all boring and annoying. 
 
Ciri is awesome of course and this book is heavily centered on her, both her telling her story and on everyone searching for her. Also for my sanity my brain completely tunes out to skim the sexual assault parts because it’s literally just there to be violent and adds zero to the story. I’ll still be reading the final book in the series and hope it’s a great ending with much better pacing that makes all the previous books worth it.