It actually took me a hot second before realizing that because the book is broken up into chapters, which made it seem like one full story. The Last Wish is a loosely connected collection of six short stories. They also gain an unnaturally long life span, yet become sterile. They become merciless assassins with magical powers that are immune to most diseases. 'training,' they go through a ritual where most do not survive. After years of mental & physical torture. Witchers are genetically enhanced humans that train intensely from an early age to battle monsters. The books consist of two short story collections & five full-length novels. In the first game, Geralt suffers from amnesia & doesn't remember any of the events that happened in these books. Written in 1993, The Last Wish introduces us to Geralt of Rivia. The games aren't direct adaptations, rather, they are spin-offs. The Witcher game series takes place within this world (an unmapped land known as the Continent), but is set years after the final book. so much out there that I want to devour! With season one of the Netflix adaptation having finished production, here I am. which truly is a wonderful problem to have! But it makes getting to a series more difficult, of course.

Then of course there is the problem of an endless TBR. Mainly the setback was that it took a long-ass time for the English translations to be released. I've been playing those games for years, with the intention of eventually getting to the source material. The Last Wish is the first novel by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski to be published in English of The Witcher series (translated by Danusia Stok!) It is the collection that inspired CD Projekt Red's badass Witcher video games, of which I am a huge fan of. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.” True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. 'Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil.

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