THE LADY OF THE LAKE: THE WITCHER 5

The book was delivered in perfect condition, the paper quality was perfect. I enjoyed the book and after playing all three games and finishing the Witcher saga, I think I'm officially a Witcher nerd.

Well! So, that was that. A saga ends. Or maybe it didn't end. Things ended well, or not so well, or rather badly. It all depends upon... exactly what? One thing is assured. Sapkowski has completely demolished the sword & sorcery template with these books. Here, it's the mankind that's monstrous. It's the mankind whose various representatives inflict all kinds of cruelty and depravity upon others as well as other humans. And elves, dwarves et.al. are pawns in their hands. Or is it the other way around? Are the so-called great civilisations all being used as pawns in the grand game of time? Nobody can confirm (or deny) anything here except that the story ended in a rather unusual manner. Oh, you think that it ended just like it should have ended! Then what about... Enough! I have had enough. Now let's toss a coin to your witcher, and start a Conan re-read. Meanwhile, recommended.

A great ending to a fun and endearing series. Sapkowski is original and daring and the ending is open ended and satisfying.

This is by far the best book in witcher series

The pages show signs that the book wasn't stored properly.

I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Many have not liked the series. But one cannot understand until one reads the series. May be some have not found it as captivating as the Game of Thrones. But it has its own charm and beauty. I LOVED IT.

The edges of the cover look slightly used

This book has a serious drop in quality than the previous books. The first four books were very good, but this book is far below that level. Definitely could have been better.

First and foremost, I enjoyed every other book in this series. The writing was good, the character development was good, and all the characters were interesting. And then we get to this ‘masterpiece’ *insert extreme sarcasm* #1 This book is tedious and boring. I am only 50% through it, and that is after SKIPPING I don’t know how many pages. I can’t force myself to read it. Why? Because of the phenomenal amount of useless/irrelevant content. At least over a hundred random characters and scenes thrown in just because/to take up more pages? No idea. These characters contribute very little or nothing to the overall plot and are forgotten again once you’ve turned the page and encountered even more useless/pointless characters. #2 This series is about “The Witcher,” is it not? So where is Geralt - the main character - in this volume? Oh, that’s right, he was replaced by those 100+ meaningless characters from #1. I think that most fans of this series will agree with me when I say that the main draw of the Witcher is Geralt. I wouldn’t have minded if the book had focused on Cahir or Milva, or Regis, or any of the other SECONDARY characters that were introduced in any of the previous books. But the most you’re going to get out of this one is Jarre, right after Ciri. If you’re at all interested in Jarre, and I really am not. #3 Ciri shines as a truly dislikable character in this volume. She is bratty, arrogant, rude, stupid, senseless (you would have to get to the scenes where she ‘gives in’ and makes morally questionable decisions just because). The book keeps going on about how important she is, how powerful she is, and she does practically nothing but whine and give people attitude. She has absolutely no redeeming qualities. #4 Sexual assaults, manhandling, and attempted rape scenes throughout. In fact, it happens so frequently that you’d think the author has a fetish for them. The #1 target is of course Ciri, but there are random characters who are also targeted here and there. Basically, when Ciri is not being treated as “all-powerful” and “holier-than-thou,” she becomes a sex object and rape fodder. There is one particular scene which makes me shake my head for how far it got before she escaped the situation. It was like the author temporarily dumbed her down just so “Gramps” could have a go at her. #5 The vague geographical locations in the Continental was tolerable in previous volumes, but in this one it boggles my mind because many places are just mentioned - seemingly randomly - and you as the reader are expected to be able to understand where these places are in relationship to everywhere else. I’d love to go on, but I feel that I’ve wasted enough time on this book and this review. I wish that I’d read the other 1-star reviews before making this purchase because I could’ve saved myself a lot of time and spent my money on something worthwhile.

It would be nice if the packaging was with bubble wrap so the books would be safer in case of a bang, but apart from that the book series is brilliant and I highly recommend them! The quality of the book is okay, though I would expect them to be of a bit higher quality for a hardcover. I also like that it has a quote at the front of the hardcover

The Witcher. Simply the best fantasy character out there in this genre. I have read this series so many times and it never disappoints.

After having devoured the other 4 books of the saga, I read this with great difficulty. The story doesn't 'roll out' as seamlessly as in the others, there's too many ramifications, too many characters that don't seem that important to the story itself, and the whole back and forth in time it's quite tiresome. A bit of a disappointment, especially cos it's the closing chapter.

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