獵魔士：最後的願望

hard to follow sometimes as the text is intentionally withholding at points, but still really enjoyable, especially after having played the witcher games

I feel like it took me a long time to read these, when in actuality, I started the first one in January so that isn't really all that long. Some of the way I'm feeling may be based off a lapse in memory though because I read around 95 books around the reading of these so I may be hazy.

For starters, I think Andrzej Sapkowski is a phenomenal writer. Secondly, I think David French did an absolutely wonderful job translating these to English. And thirdly, I think the Gollancz paperbacks were amazing–great cover art, nice quality–I actually managed to read them all without breaking the spines!

Sapkowski has such a way about his writing that the dialogue in the novels can be truly captivating. He wields it so well that he has honestly created such a wonderful lush lore within his world that really carried the hundreds of pages he wrote.

The short stories collected into The Last Wish were my favorite out of all of the stories/books. I loved the surfacing and the creation of the Witcher as a whole. Geralt of Rivia, to me, is a wonderful character. I think the addition of the overarching Melitele flashes really helped glue everything together. I think that this collection more than any other is really the basis for the games and their success. Monster hunting for life.
Not to mention some of these stories made for incredible episodes in the Netflix adaptation.

An interesting intro to the series. The prose is not perfect, but I enjoy the world for its intrigue and monsters.