Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves is one of those books that makes you go ‘Hrm.’ As in, “Hrm, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this…” It got pretty mixed reception among English readers, but I at least had the advantage going in of being somewhat aware of how different Blood of Elves would be.
It’s not like The Last Wish. While The Last Wish was a series of vignettes, Blood of Elves is a straightforward novel, set around a young girl named Ciri who was promised to the Witcher guild, and the growing racial unease in Sapkowski’s world. I knew that ahead of time, so I didn’t have to worry about nasty surprises. Actually, I was pretty intrigued by the idea, once I realized that Ciri’s back story (the tale of how she was promised to the Witchers) was in fact one of the vignettes in The Last Wish. It’s not wholly unusual for an author to take a short story and have it become something more, but as this was pretty innocuous in the mix of The Last Wish’s stories, it makes for a pretty nifty idea. READ THE REST OF BETH’S REVIEW.
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