Posted by deadvey

The Witcher The Last Wish

4/5

I've played the Witcher Games (2 and 3, planning on playing 1 at some point) so I thought I'd play the source material.
I enjoyed the format of the book, as a collection of short stories about the exiting adventures of Geralt, I've ranked the stories in order of how much I enjoyed them:

I) The Lesser Evil - I enjoyed seeing Geralt tackle with a tough decision, in both of which there is great death.  His choice in the end gave him the nickname "Butcher of Blaviken"
II) The Witcher - Named after of course Geralt, we see his skill in taking down a beast for the King of Temeria after all previous people failed, his skill with the blade is expertly introduced in this first story
III) The Last Wish - Geralt meets Yennefer and the name sake of the book, I found the Djinn lore unique and interesting, I thought it showed Geralt and Dandillion's friendship even better than "The Edge of the World" as you see how distressed Geralt is that Dandillion is hurt.
IV) A Grain of Truth - A sleeping beauty like story but with a twist, Nivellan was a bit of a weird guy, but seemed generally good meaning, I enjoyed Geralt hearing a story and figuring things out from there and the mystery of the situation.
V) The Edge of the World - The Sylvan was an interesting character and the elves where quite horrible, a good look at the friendship between Geralt and Dandillion
VI) A Question of Price - A bit harder to follow due to the many named characters, and the idea was a bit weird, Pavetta is 15 and Duny is probably between 40 and 50 which is very weird...
VII) Voice of Reason - This is a weird one as it's spread out with each bit inbetween all the other stories, and not much really happened, the fight at the end was interesting though.

Overall I enjoyed the format and the interesting adventures as well as quite well introducing different facets of Gerlats character such as strength, intellegence, friendship and weaknesses.

Fly You High - DeaDvey