The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher - Now a major Netflix show
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Besser als die Serie
Ja ist klar das man das eigentlich erwarten kann aber ist trotzdem ein komisches feeling wenn man dann tatsächlich aktiv mitbekommt was anders ist, und das es so besser ist. Ich mag auch die bisherige kurzgeschichten erzählstruktur und auf englisch liest es sich ein bisschen mehr wie ein märchen als wie ein „normales“ fantasy buch, wenn das sinn macht.
Now I really want to play the games!!
This book has everything I was looking for in fantasy. To be honest, most high fantasy books I've read consisted mostly out of either war or walking, while this is more of collection of cases, similar even to the detective story formular. In every of the short stories, Geralt has to deal with a different kind of monster in a different way. In a way, this reminded me of a more modern Sherlock Holmes kind of book, where the protagonist has to be told the backstory of the case, draw conclusions and then find out what to do about it. There is still a lot of action going on and every story is like a fairy-tale retelling, but in a different way than most of them. It is modernized through the behaviour and thoughts of characters, especially Geralt but also others, but still keeps the magical charme of fairy-tales (except this is ruined for you by cursing and sex references, but I thought it fit in very well) All of the above mentioned things are already perfect for me, but the best thing about the book were the characters. They really felt like they had personalities, not just quirks or single characteristics,no, they also felt like full rounded beings. There are a lot of characters that only appeared in one of the stories that I hope I'll see again in later books and even though very few of them were really likeable, they were so interesting. The protagonist, the witcher Geralt, is provided with a decent amount of backstory, and while getting to know him through the stories, the reader gets a pretty good understanding of his motivations and his personality as a whole, which really comes into play at the end of the last story, where a certain thing is left to interpretation. Big recommendation. This is one of the few series of the ones I begin that I actually want to continue (mostly I only read a first book in a series). If you have played the games or not (I haven't), if any of that stuff I said sounded interesting to you, check out this book.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Besser als die Serie
Ja ist klar das man das eigentlich erwarten kann aber ist trotzdem ein komisches feeling wenn man dann tatsächlich aktiv mitbekommt was anders ist, und das es so besser ist. Ich mag auch die bisherige kurzgeschichten erzählstruktur und auf englisch liest es sich ein bisschen mehr wie ein märchen als wie ein „normales“ fantasy buch, wenn das sinn macht.
Now I really want to play the games!!
This book has everything I was looking for in fantasy. To be honest, most high fantasy books I've read consisted mostly out of either war or walking, while this is more of collection of cases, similar even to the detective story formular. In every of the short stories, Geralt has to deal with a different kind of monster in a different way. In a way, this reminded me of a more modern Sherlock Holmes kind of book, where the protagonist has to be told the backstory of the case, draw conclusions and then find out what to do about it. There is still a lot of action going on and every story is like a fairy-tale retelling, but in a different way than most of them. It is modernized through the behaviour and thoughts of characters, especially Geralt but also others, but still keeps the magical charme of fairy-tales (except this is ruined for you by cursing and sex references, but I thought it fit in very well) All of the above mentioned things are already perfect for me, but the best thing about the book were the characters. They really felt like they had personalities, not just quirks or single characteristics,no, they also felt like full rounded beings. There are a lot of characters that only appeared in one of the stories that I hope I'll see again in later books and even though very few of them were really likeable, they were so interesting. The protagonist, the witcher Geralt, is provided with a decent amount of backstory, and while getting to know him through the stories, the reader gets a pretty good understanding of his motivations and his personality as a whole, which really comes into play at the end of the last story, where a certain thing is left to interpretation. Big recommendation. This is one of the few series of the ones I begin that I actually want to continue (mostly I only read a first book in a series). If you have played the games or not (I haven't), if any of that stuff I said sounded interesting to you, check out this book.