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expireddoublehelixx | Staff posted Jul 22, 2025 06:30 PM
Andrzej Sapkowski: 5-Book The Witcher Box Set (Paperback)
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It's also worth noting there are actually 2 books that are before these but have a very different writing style and way of telling the story. They're more like a series of semi-unrelated short stories about Geralt to kinda world build and set the tone. I think the author found success with those books and people wanted more, so he wrote a more traditional series of normal story driven/narrative books, and that's this series. I would recommend reading all of them.
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The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
Season of Storms
Looks like the first 2 is in its own collection:
https://a.co/d/0bMkO0i
The 8th one is a standalone:
https://a.co/d/8pWT6Sm
You'll find that almost every English speaking person who loves The Witcher is a video game fan first. And really only a Witcher 3 fan. The first game in the series has aged like sun ripened mayonnaise.
This series blew up on "BookTube" and almost no one remembers it now going on a decade later. I suspect that much of the issue is in translation. Upon finishing, I looked into the translators and my enjoyment ended basically where the translators changed which, if I recall, was after the short stories and 1-2 books into this collection. It became nearly unreadable to me after that.
The series after the short stories basically shoves Geralt out of the story nearly completely and he plays, at best, a very limited background character for almost all of the novel series (this collection).
Just one guy's opinion... I wish other's had been more vocal about it before I'd wasted my time.
NOT included are the two short story collections, nor the two prequel novels (the second scheduled for English-translation September release).
Personally, I preferred the two short story collections that are the basis of the TV-series first 9 episodes, and are not part of this sale. As to the main novels, I binged them all a while back. Interesting enough for me to complete, but not by much. And frankly, a very dark view of humanity. Some similarities to A Song of Ice and Fire, though nowhere near as expansive. I understand you may get more out of it if you are an expert/fan of various Anglo/Europe mythologies (I won't go into which to avoid spoilers), though it is very much an original work.
Bottom line: If you are unsure, I'd say save your money and instead make a trip to your library instead. Start with "The Last Wish" and "Sword of Destiny" collections in that order.
Books themselves are fine, I enjoyed them, but as others have mentioned I think the short stories were the strong point. If you liked the first few seasons of the witcher/witcher 3, odds are that you'll enjoy the series imo.
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