Andrzej Sapkowski Witcher Series Collection 8 Books Set (Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake, Seasons of Storms)

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These were my favourites and were all highly enjoyable, being both entertaining and engaging in equal measure, while also including a fair amount of tension as the various plot threads unfold. They also introduced several new travelling companions for Geralt and Dandelion, all of whom were individually unique and fascinating characters.

You’ve binge-watched the entire first season of The Witcher on Netflix. Now you want to keep watching it, but you don’t want to pay for the ongoing Netflix subscription. What better way to watch The Witcher than on DVD or Blu-ray? Will that be possible, though? Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher ( Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. book number 5 was not as much fun and the last book was drawn out. I think after book 3 the author could have jumped to the last book and left out a bunch of gore and politics etc.

In 2001, a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally, entitled Wiedźmin (The Hexer). A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures. This book is a sheer delight. It is beautifully written, full of vitality and endlessly inventive: its format, with half a dozen episodes and intervening rest periods for both the hero and the reader, allows for a huge range of characters, scenarios and action.

I love epic fantasy but this made me frustrated because of the enthusiasm I had for the first half of the series. Also - Like the TV adaption of Game of Thrones - plot lines and prophecies are abandoned willy-nilly! If you just want the best parts of this series without all the meandering waste, I'd read the "Geralt of Rivia Trilogy": The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, and Season of Storms. These stories showcase all of Sapkowski's best writing, without any of the drivel and problematic storytelling aspects that bring the main saga down. They are fast-paced, deeply engaging, and show off Sapkowski's world really effectively. They also have a fairly satisfying conclusive arc for being three nonlinear entries in the series. I plan to return to these three entries often.However, not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. Overall, the books are enjoyable to read with appealing main characters, Geralt, Dandelion, Yennefer and Cirri, but also with many entertaining side characters, especially the Dwarves, who are very down-to-earth in their outlook.