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yorweth 's review for:
The Tower of the Swallow
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Had some truly dazzling moments where it could've been a 5 star book, and the best in its series, but these were weighed down by tedium. My complaint with the Witcher series this whole time, from book 2 on, has been that:
1) geralt hasn't done any Witcher work in a long time. And Geralt often has very little to do when he's around.
2) the length
3)politics
The complaints still continue with this one, but Geralt himself acknowledged his lack of purpose beyond Ciri, several times. All the build up, world building, and character moments finally got to start going somewhere, but it took probably 3000 pages to get here.
The moments that ARE good are priceless. It had several edge of my seat passages that I just LOVED. not to spoil anything but chapters 6&7 are the best thing the Witcher saga has thrown at me in quite some time. It's just too bad that these moments are rare, and the book is about 200 pages of fat out of its 430 something.
The audiobook elevates it as always, Peter Kenny's performance can never be overstated, he's easily my favourite narrator. I read about half the book in text form before switching to audio.
As with the other witcher books I suspect they're better on a reread.
1) geralt hasn't done any Witcher work in a long time. And Geralt often has very little to do when he's around.
2) the length
3)politics
The complaints still continue with this one, but Geralt himself acknowledged his lack of purpose beyond Ciri, several times. All the build up, world building, and character moments finally got to start going somewhere, but it took probably 3000 pages to get here.
The moments that ARE good are priceless. It had several edge of my seat passages that I just LOVED. not to spoil anything but chapters 6&7 are the best thing the Witcher saga has thrown at me in quite some time. It's just too bad that these moments are rare, and the book is about 200 pages of fat out of its 430 something.
The audiobook elevates it as always, Peter Kenny's performance can never be overstated, he's easily my favourite narrator. I read about half the book in text form before switching to audio.
As with the other witcher books I suspect they're better on a reread.