Sword of Destiny
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017WP42JA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a collection of short stories following the adventures of the hit collection The Last Wish. The Witcher series The Last WishThe Sword of DestinyBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only). Yet he is no ordinary murderer: His targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. The New York Times best-selling series that inspired the international hit video game The Witcher.Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Join Geralt as he battles monsters, demons, and prejudices alike
"An Excellent Read" according to Andrew Jeffreys. After a very long wait (seven years), we finally have the official English translation of the second set of short stories about Geralt of Rivia. Why the publisher waited so long to translate this collection is beyond me, as The Sword of Destiny introduces some very important characters to the next book: Blood of Elves. However, that's a discussion for another day.The Sword of Destiny is similar to its prequel collection, The Last Wish. It's a series of short stories about Geralt, one of the last Witchers (a guild o. An amazing collection of short stories "Not this war, Geralt. After this war, no-one returns. There will be nothing to return to. Nilfgaard leaves behind it only rubble; its armies advance like lava from which no-one escapes. The roads are strewn, for miles, with gallows and pyres; the sky is cut with columns of smoke as long as the horizon. Since the beginning of the world, in fact, nothing of this sort has happened before. Since the world is our world You must understand that the Nilfgaardians have descended from their mountains to destroy this world.. Great Story for Adults Inna Tysoe Like most other Witcher books, this one is set in a Medieval World and, as any fantasy must, has its share of goblins, dryads, elves, dragons, and dwarves. What sets it apart is the realism of that world; the sheer humanity of it. As one (pretty minor) character puts it toward the end of the tale “life must go on no matter what happens.” And perhaps we can try to do as little harm as possible.At the center of this world, this story is Geralt, a Witcher that is a man who has been mutated and made fit to