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A review by bookwoods
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
4.0
Even though The Last Wish, the first Witcher book, wasn’t completely to my liking, I did feel inclined to continue on almost immediately (partly because I really want to start watching the Netflix series). And I did enjoy this more! We get more information about the world and witness better character development. And I preferred the format: I read The Last Wish in English and The Sword of Destiny I listened to in Finnish (translated by Tapani Kärkkäinen, read by Aku Laitinen). The stories felt more original as well, or it might just be that I'm not as familiar with the inspiration behind them.
One thing I’ll say is that some aspects felt outdated. There’s fatshaming, all relationships are disappointingly heteronormative and the female characters remain for the most part boring - Ciri gives me some hope for better though! It was also difficult to keep up with the chronology, which is why I’m particularly interested to see what I’ll think of the following installments that aren’t comprised of fragmented and separate individual stories...
One thing I’ll say is that some aspects felt outdated. There’s fatshaming, all relationships are disappointingly heteronormative and the female characters remain for the most part boring - Ciri gives me some hope for better though! It was also difficult to keep up with the chronology, which is why I’m particularly interested to see what I’ll think of the following installments that aren’t comprised of fragmented and separate individual stories...