The tower of the swallow5/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Really well written, despite being really confusing as timelines go, but maybe that was even intended. I can't help but think it's the best so far. The relationships between geralt and Cahir, god the chapter with Avallac'h, in the cave with the knockers, sooo many moments. About how geralt deduced that yennefer betrayed him, and we finding out only in the end, what that was all about. About how Tanny Owl in the end, was but a revolutionary democratic. Listen, don't get me wrong, I'm not a sadist, but she had a lot of that coming, you know? And her escape, her time with vysogota, maybe didn't humble her, but it changed her enough, that I can now at least not cheer against her, you know? So I liked that. And I absolutely loved reading her getting her ass handed to her by bonhart. Plus, she was willing and eager to fuck the almost corpse of another murderer. I get how in the grand scheme of things, she's that way because of her trauma, but even so, she was fucking evil for a long while. She litterally took pleasure from robbing and killing innocent people now. I made a few posts with the other books of the series, and there I said how I was growing to hate who Ciri was becoming. Reeeally good chapter.Īnother of my favorite parts is how bonhart massacred the rats. It even made me patriotic, about a fictional nation of the middle ages. And yet, it's a really good tale, of how a country was born. The redanian master spy, the king, and the queen. It's a chapter with barely more than 3 characters. One chapter I'm still surprised by how good it was, is the chapter where he tells the story of the kingdom of Kovir. Now to the good parts of the book: everything.Įverything, since vysogota's relationship with Ciri, to the jaw dropping fight scene in the ice lake, this book was wonderful. I feel like the only way I could get a solid, precise timeline of events, is if I read the whole saga again, marking on a paper the dates of everything. It's not a huge complaint, but it's there. Whereas in other books, we had a much better knowledge of what was happening in the world, as we follow a character's story, which I think makes us all the more engaged. Which you understand when it is told to us, blatantly, in the end, but it's really hard to get a grip of what's going on in the world at all times. The last time we accompany geralt in this book, is happening after most of the events in the rest of the book. ![]() It's cool, and has a charm, that kept me engaged. ![]() The way he writes, where he jumps from the present, in the main setting, to the past, in a different setting, then, to 1 year in the future. Ok now that that's over with, there's one more thing that got me confused. I get it andrzej, misterious cottage, we don't know who's watching, jesus christ. This isn't a real complaint lol, I just found wild just how much he reused that paragraph, lmao. And most of them were half a page of it, with repeated sentences. I read it on kindle, and when I finished, I searched "would have seen" and I shit you not, he repeated this paragraph, nearly word for word, at least 7 god damn times lol. "had someone quietly crept up at dusk to the remote cottage in the midst of the swamp with its sunken, moss-grown thatched roof, had they peered through the slits in the shutters, in the weak glow of tallow candles, they would have seen a teenage girl." bla bla bla. how many god damn is sapkowski going to write the same paragraph? I guess I'll get what I didn't like out of the way first.įirst of all. The side characters (codringer and fenn, in particular) in that book were phenomenal, and the chapter with the coup of the conclave is maybe my favorite chapter in all the books, and the whole book was great from beggining to end. My favorite before this book was time of contempt. Pon my word! My new favorite of the series. ![]()
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