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Lux perpetua
by Andrzej Sapkowski
This review is for all three books in the series: Narrenturm, Boży bojownicy (Warriors of God) and Lux Perpetua, in audiobook format jointly published by Fonopolis and superNOVA. I must give full credits to these producers because they've done fantastic and very professional job. The cast of over 200 people including many well known actors and professional singers, special sound effects and music (written by the same composer who wrote the score to Wiedźmin (Witcher) game) makes listening a very memorable experience.
It is a damn good action/adventure/quest and love story on the background of the XV century Hussite Wars. The background is well researched, making this almost a historical books. Almost... Here and there, Sapkowski adds a wicked gilding of witchery and magic, not too much, just enough for that what-happens-next shiver of anticipation. Bad guys are very bad. Good guys are good... most of the time. When they are not, you want to yell and slap them, annoyed that they will get themselves into even more trouble. As of course they do. There's a lot of good fun, but there's also darkness. The war, the fighting, the torture and burning of the witches... when I wrote the listening was memorable, that was exactly what I meant. I wrote 'enjoyable' but crossed it out. There is no enjoyment in the top class special effects of the fighting, the crunching of the bones, the screaming. Still, there is a good balance between the darkness and the humour, the wars and the stories of the fictitious characters.
I see the books have been translated into few languages, but no English yet. Bummer, eh, my friends? Read The Witcher Saga in the meantime :-), damn good fantasy (in this order: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake. Two other volumes: The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny are collections of stories that can be read as a loose prequel).
Four stars for each of the volumes, because I only give five stars to books I know I will read again.
It is a damn good action/adventure/quest and love story on the background of the XV century Hussite Wars. The background is well researched, making this almost a historical books. Almost... Here and there, Sapkowski adds a wicked gilding of witchery and magic, not too much, just enough for that what-happens-next shiver of anticipation. Bad guys are very bad. Good guys are good... most of the time. When they are not, you want to yell and slap them, annoyed that they will get themselves into even more trouble. As of course they do. There's a lot of good fun, but there's also darkness. The war, the fighting, the torture and burning of the witches... when I wrote the listening was memorable, that was exactly what I meant. I wrote 'enjoyable' but crossed it out. There is no enjoyment in the top class special effects of the fighting, the crunching of the bones, the screaming. Still, there is a good balance between the darkness and the humour, the wars and the stories of the fictitious characters.
I see the books have been translated into few languages, but no English yet. Bummer, eh, my friends? Read The Witcher Saga in the meantime :-), damn good fantasy (in this order: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake. Two other volumes: The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny are collections of stories that can be read as a loose prequel).
Four stars for each of the volumes, because I only give five stars to books I know I will read again.