The Tower of the Swallow

The Tower of the Swallow

1995 • 464 pages

Ratings259

Average rating4

15

Abandoned after 150 pages.
A huuuuge letdown after an amazing series and a terrible, really bad book compared not only to the previous 5 Witcher books (5/5 all of them), but to itself or to the fantasy genre in general.
It is unoriginal. Uninteresting.
Sapkowski experiments with numerous POVs and it goes terribly. He experiments with some parallel worlds and somewhat scifi concepts and it goes terribly.
He gives up on Geralt as a character and develops only the uninteresting and annoying Ciri - not a real character, but only a lame image of what an old man imagines a teenage girl would be (a brat lacking anything except aggressiveness). And ”develops” is the wrong word - there is no character development for her, whatever the circumstances.
Furthermore, the world does not feel like the Witcher one anymore, but just another generic, very bland fantasy one; the new characters are too many, uninteresting, not credible and also unimaginative.
A really bad book, best avoided by the Witcher fans. Unfortunately, I see from other reviews the next is at least just as bad. Oh, well - so the series ends here for me.

November 15, 2018