Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt is a Witcher, a man with magical abilities who has become a skilled fighter and a ruthless hunter thanks to years of training and a mysterious elixir. But he is no ordinary murderer; instead, he hunts down the many beasts and evil beings that terrorize the countryside and prey on the defenceless. The sequel to The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, serves as the ideal primer for a distinctive fantasy universe.
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
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The Last Wish, the first book in the Witcher series, is followed by The Sword of Destiny, which picks up where The Last Wish left off. The stories are unexpectedly interconnected and the continuity is surprisingly fluid. It is preferable to read the stories in the sequence in which they are released. It’s unusual when dealing with short stories, but The Sword of Destiny is also crucial to comprehend the subsequent volumes in the series. The fact that some of the brightest and darkest elements of the Witcher universe are crammed into one volume in The Sword of Destiny is also unexpected. There are humorous tales about manipulating the stock market in the Middle Ages and a retelling of The Little Mermaid, as well as tales of genocide and the forcible transfer of indigenous populations.
This is a truly excellent illustration of Andrzej Sapkowski’s range of talent. This is a breakdown of the well-known dragon-slaying epics, even though we’ve never seen them outside of The Hobbit. The only expert monster hunter in the neighbouring kingdoms who declines to kill a dragon when a prince offers a hefty prize for doing so is Geralt of Rivia. A saintly knight, a wizard who prefers to save people over murder them, a would-be peasant hero, and several cold-blooded mercenaries are drawn to this. They are completely unaffected by the dragon’s intelligence or the possibility that it is the last of its kind on the Continent.
The connection between Geralt and Yennefer is immediately continued from The Last Wish in this chapter. Evidently, Geralt left her soon after the incident, which Yennefer found to be extremely upsetting. In one of her best performances, she provides some very amazing excuses in order to persuade herself that it is acceptable to kill the dragons for her own extremely selfish purposes. It’s a funny, goofy narrative that’s surprisingly well-written and perceptive.
