the last wish – Cannonball Read 17

So This Is Why Geralt Is So Reticent

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

October 31, 2020 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Confession: My Witcher experience to date has been a bit arse over tit. I appear that have done everything completely backwards. My first introduction to the series was the TV show earlier this year, which then prompted me to purchase The Witcher 3 (Which I’m not very good at—I’m going to blame the Joy-Con drift). So after all that, I thought I should start with one of the books. The Last Wish is made up of a series of short stories and is the rough […]

Toss a coin…etc

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

July 29, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 #CBR12 Bingo: Repeat (since I’ve already covered the Adaptation square) Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher. This means he roams about the countryside, travelling from place to place, killing monsters for profit. To become a Witcher, he was taken from his family as a child, and long training, magic and special potions make him a strong, fast and highly efficient killer. Based on the stories in this collection, it seems that once, there were a lot more Witchers, now they are rare and unusual, and […]

She came to him toward morning.

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

April 21, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I haven’t seen The Witcher tv series, but I have played through The Witcher 3, and I went into it completely cold. I didn’t know the history, the mythos, the world, or the characters. That experience was actually mostly fine except I allowed a character to die who I didn’t realize was a big part of the series, and well they don’t come back. But something I’ve been curious about with the show is how much of it makes any sense to a brand new watcher. […]

Here Come the Witcher Reviews!

The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

January 30, 2020 by ElCicco 2 Comments

My husband is a big, big Witcher fan — played all the games more than once and listened to the audiobooks. When the news broke that the series was coming to Netflix, I knew I would end up watching with him. He’d been badgering me to read the books for ages and during the show, he kept pointing out where the TV series differed from the books (usually expressed as a complaint). It was funny because that’s usually MY job. So I have caved in […]

Underwhelming, hopefully the Netflix show is better.

The Last Wish (The Witcher, #1) by Andzrej Sapkowski

June 26, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

I had this already on my TBR before they announced the Netflix adaptation, but it wasn’t a huge priority. I figured I would get to it eventually, along with all the other fantasy series I’ve got on there (which I feel like is all of them). But I did want to check it out when I heard about the show, because I do like to try when possible to have read at least the first couple of books in a series before watching an adaptation. […]

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