Hopefully this is the conclusion to the series it proports to be and Sapkowski resists the urge to push out more manure to cash in on CDprojekt's success (edit: he didnt lol.). I'd now much rather take the games' telling of the Witcher saga as definitive than this. The passages of song are a little hard to listen to but it's evidently a constraint of the text / translation, not Kenny's fault. I've listened to all the Witcher books available on audible and found Kenny's performance engaging and compelling. The sense of Sapkowski wanting to return to short story format is evident and his creative limitations are palpable. The allusions to Arthurian legend are frankly embarrassing. Extended sections of the book are give over to subplots and tertiary characters which are utterly irrelevant to the main plot / characters. It's appallingly unfocused and jumps around worse than previous entries. It's a disappointing wet fart of a conclusion to a series I had a genuine love for. Great performance, depressingly bad story.
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