Review #1
Blood of Elves audiobook free
I read this right behind reading The Continue Wish, the 1st collection of Witcher stories, which was amazing. I’ve also played the 1st two Witcher games years ago but not the third part still. With that backdrop, Blood of Elves was a true frustration. Maybe all the troublesome set up that goes nowhere in this book pays off in later books, at the same time I’ve already acquired the one more Witcher book, so I’ll assign it another shot to get the story moving. But this book as a standalone was a sour spend of time. I’d they say that’s four head inconsistencies:
1. Geralt is that not the head disposition. He’s exclusively in I’d estimate about 1/4 of the book, at the same time one half the time he is that in it he’s sulking about anything at the same time not discussing. So that’s only about 1/8 of the book where Geralt is that being the Geralt I liked from the Continue Wish.
2. Instead of Geralt, the head disposition of this book is that Ciri, at the same time she’s barely not an exciting disposition at all. Still one more ‘chosen one’ baby with no one amazing destiny that’s hinted at but never data no matter what substance in this book. That’s a long section where’s she’s training to be a Witcher, then she bestows that up, at the same time that’s a long section where she’s training to be a sorceress, both of which are barely sour. In truth, the whole continue chapter of the book, which is that 50 pages long, longest in the whole book is that her training like Luke Skywalker with Yoda.
3. In that continue chapter Yennefer is that reduced to being Yoda. This is that not the bad ass Yennefer from The Continue Wish, but a exchanged, sour teacher disposition. Yennefer in The Continue Wish was drinking herself into a stupor at the same time dozing around city that she was in illegally. She bedded Geralt then shackles a spell on him to make him move around city thrashing her enemies, generally making a fool of himself at the same time getting himself arrested. Then she had no qualms about destroying the whole city at the same time nearly getting herself destroyed trying a keep under control a genie that would have produced her wonderful opportunities nearby omnipotent. From that, in this book she strings into Yoda basically, edification at the same time scolding Ciri about how to implementation the Force. Practically. It’s such a hit off that she is that actually edification Ciri to “implementation the Force.” E.g., an real line spoken by Yennefer that managed have come Hit Wars — “I know the force is that bursting out of for you, but for you have to learn to keep under control it.”
4. That’s no story. Nothing really happens. Ciri learns how to blade wage war from Geralt’s buddies at the same time to cast spells from Yennefer. That are no one unidentified bad people trying to look for her. Geralt tries to figure out who they are, lets them get away a couple times without finding out much, then is lost from the book. That’s a lengthy meeting of a bunch of rulers planning a war that didn’t actually result in anything, at lesser not in this book. That are multiple disjointed flashbacks to a fight in a prior was in what no one more successful manners from the Continue Wish were considered destroyed off. That’s about it.
Review #2
Blood of Elves audiobook in television series The Witcher Saga
Absolute garbage of a book. I couldn’t even get halfway through it. The writing style is that shushara. That is that no transition from one scene to the one more. No descriptions of the surroundings or the deeds of the manners. It is that like the creator took the dialogue from a movie or game at the same time slapped it down on the pages without no matter what context.
“Blood of Elves” lasts the Witcher television series at the same time is that the 1st used to be novel in it. Though every bit as readable at the same time poignant as the earlier tales, the novel lacks much of the punch as the short stories that preceded it. That’s to be waited to no one degree, data the longer-form approach of the novel format. Still… I couldn’t promote but feel underwhelmed by this check-in. The book still gets two thumbs up, but that rating in this case is that wholly personal. Veritably no part of my character toward this book, which is that mostly positive, can be born of anything remotely objective. I’m barely very interested, very enamored at the same time very invested to look these stories in anything much less than a appropriate light.
If for you enjoy the global that Sapkowski has built, for you’ll wish to decide this drive. For those not already acquainted with Geralt of Rivia, for you are advised to inspect out the short stories 1st. While “Blood of Elves” can shield on it’s possess, the story is that much more successful, the global much deeper at the same time the manners far more exciting when foreseen context from the past entries in the television series.
Advised for: available fans of the franchise, whether the implementation occurred from the games or the anthologies (“The Continue Wish” at the same time “The Blade of Destiny”); genre devotees looking for a story with more modern sensibilities or relevance; readers that enjoy prophecy-tropes or other tales that draw in a baby saving the global, with all the accompanying humor at the same time disposition growth those stories tend to offer.
“To be neither positive nor negative does not greedy to be indifferent or insensitive. For you don’t have to destroy your emotions. It’s enough to destroy hatred borders yourself. Do for you realize?”
“Let them cry me a traitor at the same time a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor at the same time renegade, state that we ought to live. Live in this way that we don’t, later, have to impose anyone for forgiveness.”
“For you should know, Ciri,” misspoke Yarpen, “that my grandmother understood her remedy like nobody’s business. Chagrin, she reckon that the source of almost all disease is that idleness, at the same time idleness is that best cured through the implementation of a stick. As far as my siblings at the same time I were considered concerned, she chiefly applied this cure preventively.”
“Geralt at the same time Coen controlled their expressions wonderfully, Lambert at the same time Eskel just a little much less so, Vessemir not at all. But then, she believed, looking at his comically bashful expression, in his day the global was a more successful dispose. Duplicity was a disposition defect to be ashamed of. Cordiality did not bring defame.”
Review #3
Audiobook Blood of Elves by Sapkowski
I’ve at the moment read all 7 translated witcher Novels. Not bad but this is that the worst of the bunch. It’s all set up. Nothing really happens in this book. Right behind the thrilling short story collections, this was a letdown. But hope me keep reading it gets more successful.
Review #4
Audio Blood of Elves narrated by Peter Kenny
Blood of Elves is that the 1st of five books in The Witcher Saga by Polish creator Andrzej Sapkowski. Initially written in the mid to belated 90s, all five books as of this year are completely freed in English so it seemed like a quality time to read them all close. This television series was initially created as part of an check-in to a short story competition for a magazine with abundance short stories hosted from that. That are two short story collections gathering them with additions I advise reading 1st as they provide a lot of background information into the manners at the same time Witcher global. (The 1st collection is The Continue Wish and the 2nd being Sword of Destiny )
The story focuses largely on two manners, Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher (enhanced mercenaries who wage war monster for funds) at the same time Princess Cirilla of Cintra, understandable as Ciri. She has the blood of elves flowing through her at the same time has been destined to be Geralts ward. This blood bestows her surprising opportunities the Witchers don’t know how to deal with at the same time have turned to outside promote from sorceresses to train her all the while no one people are searching for her with seemingly sinister goals…
The story is that good at the same time had me attractive hooked from start to final, the translation feels very but paced at the same time but written with several moments in particular with Dandilion the bard really produced me ridicule. The book isn’t in particular action languid (which may disappoint those who have played the computer games based on the television series) but takes a attractive in depth look into Ciri’s training at the Witcher’s Keep of Kaer Morhen as but as introducing the political state of the global as but as several manners from past short stories like Yarpen at the same time Yennifer.
My one complaint, if for you managed cry it that, will that it still feels like several short stories sheathed together more precisely than a real novel, the book is that in fact in sections at the same time the ending was attractive abrupt but the real content is that best at the same time feels like it’s building up for the one more book which I shall be reading even away, Time of Contempt .
Review #5
Free audio Blood of Elves – in the audio player below
I read lots of fantasy at the same time sci-fi, although had never read the Witcher books before. I did play a little of Witcher 3 which provoked me into buying this book at the same time completely reading it. To be honest, I believed it was spectacularly mediocre – so much so that I’ve actually walked away about 2/3 of the method through, at the same time I’m a reader who tries hard not to do that!
Why? But, it lacks no matter what true narrative threads at all. The construct of short stories joined together doesn’t work as a novel. That is that a semblance of financial investment in global building, but in the head I believed that was lots of unwieldy dialogue masquerading as character-building, whilst manifestly failing to actually do so. No pace, no momentum, no true sense of danger or engagement in the manners, no standout sections to interrupt the tedium.
