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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
geralt is my little guy tm forever but also fantasy about guy is sort of not my brand so…
I wish I could write a longer review, but the gist is: I have no idea what others saw in this book (series).
It consists of approximately 80% dialogue, in which almost everyone sounds like a piece of wood. The fight scenes are cringe-worthy. Every chapter HAS TO, in some way, teach us that the REAL monsters were the humans all along. Geralt is the person every dudebro imagines is the coolest being on earth (except, in reality, is just incredibly boring and would probably get avoided by everyone). This whole thing was just... painful.
It consists of approximately 80% dialogue, in which almost everyone sounds like a piece of wood. The fight scenes are cringe-worthy. Every chapter HAS TO, in some way, teach us that the REAL monsters were the humans all along. Geralt is the person every dudebro imagines is the coolest being on earth (except, in reality, is just incredibly boring and would probably get avoided by everyone). This whole thing was just... painful.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
These are very addictive.
I have to shamefully admit, for the longest time I somehow thought these were books written as companions for the games and not the other way around, which is why I avoided them.
Now that I know better, I am fully open to ingesting the entire series.
Having seen the first season of the Netflix show before starting the books (again because I didn't really know what they were), I struggled a little bit at first with some of the very memorable aspects of the show being less dominant in the books. Somehow the book seemed a little tame in comparison, less sweary, less bloody, less funny too. This I got used to. Also the humor just seems to have a slow start and is very much present in the second half of the book and (from what I can see so far) in Sword of Destiny.
As soon as I was nearing the end of the book I was panicking because the next one hadn't arrived yet. So even though at times the first book still seems a little clumsy, it had me hooked straight away. It's not a chore at all. It is, even at it's flattest bits, a very good High Fantasy read. At it's best parts it's actually fantastic.
It has to be said of course, that these are short stories (covering mostly season 1 of the show minus the Ciri bits, which is for the most part establisher), and the full story is yet to come.
Kudos also to the translation, because I mostly forgot it wasn't originally English.
Compared to A Song of Ice and Fire the term "lack of substance" comes to mind, but I have a suspicion that will change before the end of the series. The second book already seems a lot more solid.
I have to shamefully admit, for the longest time I somehow thought these were books written as companions for the games and not the other way around, which is why I avoided them.
Now that I know better, I am fully open to ingesting the entire series.
Having seen the first season of the Netflix show before starting the books (again because I didn't really know what they were), I struggled a little bit at first with some of the very memorable aspects of the show being less dominant in the books. Somehow the book seemed a little tame in comparison, less sweary, less bloody, less funny too. This I got used to. Also the humor just seems to have a slow start and is very much present in the second half of the book and (from what I can see so far) in Sword of Destiny.
As soon as I was nearing the end of the book I was panicking because the next one hadn't arrived yet. So even though at times the first book still seems a little clumsy, it had me hooked straight away. It's not a chore at all. It is, even at it's flattest bits, a very good High Fantasy read. At it's best parts it's actually fantastic.
It has to be said of course, that these are short stories (covering mostly season 1 of the show minus the Ciri bits, which is for the most part establisher), and the full story is yet to come.
Kudos also to the translation, because I mostly forgot it wasn't originally English.
Compared to A Song of Ice and Fire the term "lack of substance" comes to mind, but I have a suspicion that will change before the end of the series. The second book already seems a lot more solid.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated