At times I wanted to stop reading the book right then and there. I found a couple chapters to be very tedious as they focused on side characters, had even more unnecessary time jumps in the narrative (which has been a big gripe of mine in this series) and brought the pace of the story to halt.

I continued on, the action picked up and bodies started to hit the floor. And my spoiler comment about that...

Sapkowski would update casually jump to other characters we were introduced with, learn their sad fate at the hand of a plague or some other untimely death and then bring us back to the main fight and boom a familiar character is gone. There's another one bleeding out.

At this point I took notice as Sapkowski was cleaning house and ensuring there were no loose threads. The way the story finished is what saved the rating of this book for me, it went from okay to wow.

My star rating of the book fluctuated depending on my progress but the final push to the end was very entertaining and a great conclusion to the series.

I have come this far and will read "Season of Storms" before putting a close to this Witcher side quest.