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Blood of Elves
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Weirdly, I enjoyed the short story collection more.
I would have thought we would get more context, clues, and world building in what is supposed to be book one. Nope. Names, wars, races, characters, past relationships… if I didn’t already know the basics from the first two season of the TV show, I would have felt so lost and frustrated.
The writing is great.
There is a lot of tell not show which makes sense when you think of how well it works as adaptions.
You learn so much about the characters through their dialogue rather than any actions. Indeed, a lot of actions are conveyed through the use of dialogue.
<b>’I see you have applied yourselves to fulfilling the demands of fate and destiny? But it seems you have muddled the stories, boys. In the fairy-tales I was told, shepherdesses and orphans become princesses.
But here, I see, a princess is becoming a witcher. Does that not appear somewhat daring to you?'
</b>
I loved being in Ciri’s head and perspective. Somehow Sapkowski manages to write in the manner of a young, naive, thirsty for the world girl extremely well.
The chapters are very long though. 43 pages to get to chapter 2.
I would have thought we would get more context, clues, and world building in what is supposed to be book one. Nope. Names, wars, races, characters, past relationships… if I didn’t already know the basics from the first two season of the TV show, I would have felt so lost and frustrated.
The writing is great.
There is a lot of tell not show which makes sense when you think of how well it works as adaptions.
You learn so much about the characters through their dialogue rather than any actions. Indeed, a lot of actions are conveyed through the use of dialogue.
<b>’I see you have applied yourselves to fulfilling the demands of fate and destiny? But it seems you have muddled the stories, boys. In the fairy-tales I was told, shepherdesses and orphans become princesses.
But here, I see, a princess is becoming a witcher. Does that not appear somewhat daring to you?'
</b>
I loved being in Ciri’s head and perspective. Somehow Sapkowski manages to write in the manner of a young, naive, thirsty for the world girl extremely well.
The chapters are very long though. 43 pages to get to chapter 2.