![]() ![]() Boy was I wrong! Baptism of Fire is about as convoluted as A Game of Thrones, with a litany of names and places I could not keep straight. Since the main character, Geralt, is the brooding edge lord type, I imagined a character similar to Robert Howard’s Conan, in an ongoing series of loosely connected adventures, wherein chronological order doesn’t matter. ![]() Now I must admit that I got confused by the chronology of the series, and started with the third Witcher book, Baptism of Fire. More than once, I found myself whipping out the dictionary to look up a term, like menhir, which is sure to come in handy when I write my next book. Unless his translator went above and beyond the call of duty, turning the original Polish prose into English poetry, which is doubtful, Andrzej is quite the wordsmith in his native tongue. Even my nephew, who abhors reading anything more than a JRPG dialogue box, told me he had read the first book, so I figured I needed to know what all the fuss was about.Īs far as I can tell, Andrzej Sapkowski has a gift for words. ![]() I felt pressured to reading the Witcher after the series was turned into a Netflix original starring Henry Cavill, and a trilogy of video games for PC, PS4 and Xbox. ![]()
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