Title: Blood of Elves (The Witcher Book 1) Pdf
Now a Netflix original series!The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, becomes the guardian of Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution and prophesied savior of the world, in the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix series and the blockbuster video games.For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world -- for good, or for evil.As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.Witcher novelsBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of SwallowsLady of the LakeSeason of StormsWitcher collectionsThe Last WishSword of DestinyThe Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only)Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok.
Don't waste your time or money! Absolute garbage of a book. I couldn't even get halfway through it. The writing style is rubbish. There is no transition from one scene to the next. No descriptions of the surroundings or the actions of the characters. It is like the author took the dialogue from a movie or game and slapped it down on the pages without any context.What a disappointment after The Last Wish 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.5/5 stars Both as a fantasy reader and Witcher fan buy I can safely say this book is amazing. Pros 4.5/5 starsBoth as a fantasy reader and Witcher fan buy I can safely say this book is amazing.Pros.-Characters are very numerous, yet they are some of the most defined characters I've ever read in a novel.-The world the book is set in is full of wonder and mysteries-The pacing is quick and the Witcher is always on the move.-There is adult content and violence but the author doesn't go out of the way to shove it in your face like other novels I've read.Cons.-The writing style feels a little strange but that's probably because the book has been translated from another language.For people who haven't played the video game and are new to the series this book is a well paced action/adventure/even kind of drama novel that revolves around a wanderer called a Geralt of Rivia. A Witcher, or a professional monster bounty hunter who kills evil monsters(there are good monsters too!) if the price is right.For people who have played the video games, there isn't any overlap story wise(you aren't reading the video game), you will find a great deal of back story and how many of the people you meet playing as Geralt aren't just random characters thrown in by a developer but people who have a long history with the Witcher and have had purpose in Geralt's past.
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