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A review by tragicanemone42
Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski
3.0
tl;dr: if you want to read the Witcher series, just read the short stories and maybe books one and two.
SPOILERS
God, I never write reviews but I'm so irritated. I'm only giving this 3 instead of 2 because I've stuck this whole series through and I think I would hate myself for reading a 500 page two star book. I was rooting for you, Sapkowski, we were all rooting for you!!!!
Things that pissed me off, in no particular order:
1. Introducing so many new characters that nobody cares about. This is the LAST book in a seven book series, and like 70% of it isn't even about Geralt?? Let's be real, he's the reason for these books, before Ciri. Even she wasn't in it enough. The best parts of this book were Geralt and the crew, everything else sucked.
2. Speaking of Ciri... Her whole plotline ended up being so stupid. So asinine. Basically everyone, including her dear old dad (which, wtf) wants to impregnate her. Like that's her purpose? The amount of rapey men in this is atrocious. The whole part with the elf king was absolutely horrendous, and then we're supposed to believe she stayed with him as he died and felt some type of way about it??? No. He was a dick.
3. Everything about the sorceresses. I didn't realize how unlikeable a group of otherwise really badass women could be. Also, it felt like the lodge took itself so seriously and it was just silly.
4. I get it, not everyone gets a happy ending in good books. But I guess NOBODY gets a good ending in these books. I was seriously upset and annoyed that not one of the witcher crew (Cahir, Regis, Milva, Angoulême) survived. Regis is like a thousand years old, seriously?
5. Really--what's wrong with Geralt in this book? He just gives up on everything so easily? We're supposed to believe both he and Yen are cool with sending Ciri off to get raped and impregnated by her gross dad? Nah, that's not them. It's so out of character.
6. On the out of character note: Emhyr started a whole WAR and murdered thousands of people and went through all this in pursuit of Ciri just to not follow through? The audacity to be this lazy is just... astounding.
7. The time jumps, the story within a story within a story within a story, constant jumping around, mostly between new characters nobody cares about. Awful writing.
Anyway, I'm just really pissed off that something that started so well and has been so good in its other iterations (game and show) has ended so BADLY. I'm off to play witcher 3 again for a corrective Geralt experience, and forgetting this book ever existed.
SPOILERS
God, I never write reviews but I'm so irritated. I'm only giving this 3 instead of 2 because I've stuck this whole series through and I think I would hate myself for reading a 500 page two star book. I was rooting for you, Sapkowski, we were all rooting for you!!!!
Things that pissed me off, in no particular order:
1. Introducing so many new characters that nobody cares about. This is the LAST book in a seven book series, and like 70% of it isn't even about Geralt?? Let's be real, he's the reason for these books, before Ciri. Even she wasn't in it enough. The best parts of this book were Geralt and the crew, everything else sucked.
2. Speaking of Ciri... Her whole plotline ended up being so stupid. So asinine. Basically everyone, including her dear old dad (which, wtf) wants to impregnate her. Like that's her purpose? The amount of rapey men in this is atrocious. The whole part with the elf king was absolutely horrendous, and then we're supposed to believe she stayed with him as he died and felt some type of way about it??? No. He was a dick.
3. Everything about the sorceresses. I didn't realize how unlikeable a group of otherwise really badass women could be. Also, it felt like the lodge took itself so seriously and it was just silly.
4. I get it, not everyone gets a happy ending in good books. But I guess NOBODY gets a good ending in these books. I was seriously upset and annoyed that not one of the witcher crew (Cahir, Regis, Milva, Angoulême) survived. Regis is like a thousand years old, seriously?
5. Really--what's wrong with Geralt in this book? He just gives up on everything so easily? We're supposed to believe both he and Yen are cool with sending Ciri off to get raped and impregnated by her gross dad? Nah, that's not them. It's so out of character.
6. On the out of character note: Emhyr started a whole WAR and murdered thousands of people and went through all this in pursuit of Ciri just to not follow through? The audacity to be this lazy is just... astounding.
7. The time jumps, the story within a story within a story within a story, constant jumping around, mostly between new characters nobody cares about. Awful writing.
Anyway, I'm just really pissed off that something that started so well and has been so good in its other iterations (game and show) has ended so BADLY. I'm off to play witcher 3 again for a corrective Geralt experience, and forgetting this book ever existed.