Blood of Elves

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Review #1

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I read this after reading The Last Wish, the first collection of Witcher stories, which was great. I’ve also played the first two Witcher games years ago but not the third yet. With that backdrop, Blood of Elves was a real disappointment. Maybe all the tedious set up that goes nowhere in this book pays off in later books, and I’ve already bought the next Witcher book, so I’ll give it one more shot to get the story moving. But this book as a standalone was a boring waste of time. I’d say there’s four main problems:
1. Geralt is not the main character. He’s only in I’d estimate about 1/4 of the book, and half the time he is in it he’s sulking about something and not talking. So there’s only about 1/8 of the book where Geralt is being the Geralt I liked from the Last Wish.
2. Instead of Geralt, the main character of this book is Ciri, and she’s just not an interesting character at all. Yet another ‘chosen one’ child with some great destiny that’s hinted at but never given any substance in this book. There’s a long section where’s she’s training to be a Witcher, then she gives that up, and there’s a long section where she’s training to be a sorceress, both of which are just boring. In fact, the whole last chapter of the book, which is 50 pages long, longest in the whole book is her training like Luke Skywalker with Yoda.
3. In that last chapter Yennefer is reduced to being Yoda. This is not the bad ass Yennefer from The Last Wish, but a changed, boring teacher character. Yennefer in The Last Wish was drinking herself into a stupor and sleeping around town that she was in illegally. She bedded Geralt then put a spell on him to make him go around town thrashing her enemies, generally making a fool of himself and getting himself arrested. Then she had no qualms about destroying the whole town and nearly getting herself killed trying a control a genie that would have made her magical powers near omnipotent. From that, in this book she turns into Yoda basically, teaching and scolding Ciri about how to use the Force. Literally. It’s such a knock off that she is actually teaching Ciri to “use the Force.” E.g., an actual line spoken by Yennefer that could have come Star Wars — “I know the force is bursting out of you, but you have to learn to control it.”
4. There’s no story. Nothing really happens. Ciri learns how to sword fight from Geralt’s buddies and to cast spells from Yennefer. There are some unidentified bad people trying to find her. Geralt tries to figure out who they are, lets them get away a couple times without finding out much, then disappears from the book. There’s a lengthy meeting of a bunch of kings planning a war that didn’t actually result in anything, at least not in this book. There are repeated disjointed flashbacks to a battle in a prior was in which some better characters from the Last Wish were killed off. That’s about it.

Review #2

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Review #3

Audiobook Blood of Elves by Sapkowski

I’ve now read all 7 translated witcher Novels. Not bad but this is the worst of the bunch. It’s all set up. Nothing really happens in this book. After the thrilling short story collections, this was a letdown. But trust me keep reading it gets better.

Review #4

Audio Blood of Elves narrated by Peter Kenny

Blood of Elves is the first of five books in The Witcher Saga by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Originally written in the mid to late nineties, all five books as of this year are finally released in English so it seemed like a good time to read them all back to back. This series was originally created as part of an entry to a short story competition for a magazine with many short stories published from that. There are two short story collections gathering them with additions I recommend reading first as they provide a lot of background information into the characters and Witcher world. (The first collection is  The Last Wish  and the second being  Sword of Destiny )

The story focuses largely on two characters, Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher (enhanced mercenaries who fight monsters for money) and Princess Cirilla of Cintra, known as Ciri. She has the blood of elves flowing through her and has been destined to be Geralts ward. This blood gives her surprising powers the Witchers don’t know how to deal with and have turned to outside help from sorceresses to train her all the while some people are searching for her with seemingly sinister intentions…

The story is excellent and had me pretty hooked from start to finish, the translation feels very well paced and well written with several moments especially with Dandilion the bard really made me laugh. The book isn’t especially action heavy (which may disappoint those who have played the computer games based on the series) but takes a pretty in depth look into Ciri’s training at the Witcher’s Keep of Kaer Morhen as well as introducing the political state of the world as well as several characters from previous short stories like Yarpen and Yennifer.

My one complaint, if you could call it that, is that it still feels like several short stories tied together rather than a full novel, the book is practically in sections and the ending was pretty abrupt but the actual content is excellent and feels like it’s building up for the next book which I shall be reading straight away,  Time of Contempt .

Review #5

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I read lots of fantasy and sci-fi, although had never read the Witcher books before. I did play a bit of Witcher 3 which provoked me into buying this book and finally reading it. To be honest, I thought it was spectacularly mediocre – so much so that I’ve actually walked away about 2/3 of the way through, and I’m a reader who tries hard not to do that!

Why? Well, it lacks any real narrative thread at all. The construct of short stories joined together doesn’t work as a novel. There is a semblance of investment in world building, but in the main I thought there was lots of unwieldy dialogue masquerading as character-building, whilst manifestly failing to actually do so. No pace, no momentum, no real sense of threat or engagement in the characters, no standout sections to interrupt the tedium.

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