


It's not the most complicated fantasy series ever, but because the stories weren't released in chronologic order, release date won't be your best guide.The Witcher started in the '80s as a series of short stories written by Sapkowski for a fantasy magazine. If you want to read the story that The Witcher season 2's first episode is based on, for instance, you'll find it in The Last Wish (opens in new tab), the Witcher book we recommend you start with.

For the most part, the show keeps most of the stories as it is which is a great feeling as a fan of the book.Generally speaking, the show changes plenty of details but takes the broad strokes of its plots directly from the Witcher stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, which were also the basis for the CD Projekt Red Witcher games.

The war doesn’t take place until later on and the short stories are spread out in the show. If you have seen the show, then the books will be a little confusing. We see how his worldview comes crashing down when the world around him goes to war and how his inaction let it happen. He doesn’t want to be anyone’s pawn and doesn’t want to spill any unnecessary blood. Geralt of Rivia wants to remain neutral in all the wars. There are a lot of themes floating around and the one I want to discuss is the one he mentions a lot in his previous novels neutrality. He is an excellent story teller and makes it hard to put the book down. Sapkowski uses interesting narrators and makes it work. The novel picks up at a good pace after starting off a bit slow. I really enjoyed this novel and have to say it was my favorite so far. The mages are there to discuss something very important and determine the course fate is supposed to go but not everyone is in agreement. There is a council meeting of sorcerers and sorceresses and Yennifer heads there with Geralt. The Time of Contempt by Andrzej SapkowskiĬiri is traveling with Yennefer and is reunited with the Witcher.
