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The Tower of the Swallow
by Andrzej Sapkowski
This was a hard book to rate. I ended up going with four stars, but I wish I could give it more of a three and a half stars rating. The story itself was entertaining and interesting, however I did find myself wishing to have more Geralt. As this story was much more about Ciri and the Hermit, Bonhart, Skelly Owl, Vilgefortz and Rience, Yennefer, and Triss.
Overall, a couple of disjointed thoughts/gripes:
-The narrative was very much all over the place, jumping back and forth in time with new characters. This was pretty difficult to follow at times, but I found it much easier once I found a detailed Witcher world map online. To be able to keep track in my head of where all these different characters were located throughout the story.
-Leo Bonhart was a very good villain and addition to the story, there were quite some gruesome scenes described with him and he's a true psychopath which makes it easy to root for Ciri against him.
-I still find myself struggling with the translation at times, it seems to be a lot clunkier than it needs to be in several parts. It makes sense after re-reading a few times, but I've noticed it more and more throughout the past few books. I'm interested to start a different fantasy series once I've finished and see if it's noticeably less difficult to take in.
-Cahir is an extremely interesting character to me, and I find myself quite interested in his involvement in Geralt's group and what his true motivations are and have been. They seemed to have been revealed when he was discussing one on one with Geralt after their tussele, but I'm interested to see if this gets resolved and how it does in the last book.
Overall, a couple of disjointed thoughts/gripes:
-The narrative was very much all over the place, jumping back and forth in time with new characters. This was pretty difficult to follow at times, but I found it much easier once I found a detailed Witcher world map online. To be able to keep track in my head of where all these different characters were located throughout the story.
-Leo Bonhart was a very good villain and addition to the story, there were quite some gruesome scenes described with him and he's a true psychopath which makes it easy to root for Ciri against him.
-I still find myself struggling with the translation at times, it seems to be a lot clunkier than it needs to be in several parts. It makes sense after re-reading a few times, but I've noticed it more and more throughout the past few books. I'm interested to start a different fantasy series once I've finished and see if it's noticeably less difficult to take in.
-Cahir is an extremely interesting character to me, and I find myself quite interested in his involvement in Geralt's group and what his true motivations are and have been. They seemed to have been revealed when he was discussing one on one with Geralt after their tussele, but I'm interested to see if this gets resolved and how it does in the last book.