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reviewed The Last Wish by Danusia Stok (The Witcher Saga, #1)

Danusia Stok, Andrzej Sapkowski: The Last Wish (Paperback, 2022, Orbit)

Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a …

Far far beyond my expectations

This book was awesome. I'm always a little hesitant to start stuff that has a pretty extensive following because mega fans are wearing rose coloured glasses. But this was in fact extremely awesome.

A main character who's cool, badass, but also somehow a bumbling idiot? And to make it all even better, the book avoids being a misogynistic disaster with a very little effort. The fact that this impresses me says a lot about this genre of fantasy writing, but I will be impressed nonetheless.

I've already got the next book out from the library and ready to read.