Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. I feel like the larger apparatuses needed to be shown through them, and they often are, but we often get them through large chunks of exposition, often in large swaths of dialog among many characters.Trapped in a world ruled by the Elves, separated from Geralt and her destiny, Ciri will need all her training as a fighter and sorceress to survive in the fifth novel of the Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.Īfter walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows and narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world. I keep wanting to be back with either Geralt or Ciri at any moment we’re not. If the goal is to show how the Witcher is a small player among gigantic machinations, that’s great, but he still ends up playing larger roles within them than his role in the novel as a character seems to demonstrate.
The novel is also frustrating in the way that all Witcher novels are, which is that the politics is often happening for long periods of time, and I keep finding them to be the least interesting elements along the way.
So it gets a little busy and populated at times. The Witcher takes places in a magical and fantasy version of dark ages Poland, but at the same time, exists within the framework of King Arthur stories, and as well as myths and legends borrowed from Gaelic fables. So the other reason this becomes a little frustrating is the continued mythopoeic qualities of the stories. But it also means that all the others are likely dead, or if one frame story is to believed, maybe never really existed in the way we were led to think. We are far into the future for both of them, and we know one character that is still around, and none of the others. In this novel, we have two distinctly different frame stories happening at the same time. The Witcher is a very good and very frustrating series to read.
The final Witcher novel, and phew, I hate to say it, but I am glad I am done.
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