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The Last Wish
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Start date
August 1, 2016
Finish date
August 31, 2016
Why we're reading this
Veronica is obsessed with The Witcher.

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Melani
This was fine. It is very much an early 90s fantasy novel written by a man. That doesn't mean it's bad exactly, just that the women, especially the younger (read, sexy) women, in it are.... not quite believable as characters. ...more
L. Lawson
May 16, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Even more wonderful on a re-read, after soaking in a lot of Witcher related content since my first read in 2015.

In this collection, we see Geralt at various times in his Witcher life, meeting some of the people who will become important to his story later. The stories are framed as remember aces as Geralt lay recuperating from a fight with a Striga.

The stories, i realized this time through, are like 60%-70% dialogue, and that introduced some nifty devices for introducing characters and lore and
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