The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
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The Last Wish
Introducing the Witcher

Bestseller

Author: Andrzej Sapkowski, Danusia Stok

Series: Witcher #1

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 05/05/2015


Synopsis

Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures, the first chapter in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.

The New York Times bestselling series
Over Fifteen Million Copies Sold Worldwide
World Fantasy Award Winning Author
David Gemmell Legend Award Winning Author
Named One of the Greatest Book Series of All Time by Forbes

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 hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world.

But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Witcher collections
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny

Witcher novels
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire 
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
Season of Storms

Hussite Trilogy
The Tower of Fools
Warriors of God

Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok

About Andrzej Sapkowski

Sapkowski was born in 1948 in Poland. He studied economy and business, but the success of his fantasy cycle about the sorcerer Geralt de Rivia turned him into a bestselling writer and he is now one of Poland's most famous and successful authors, selling more in his own country than Stephen King or Michael Crichton.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on October 28, 2024

So, this is a collection of short stories loosely threaded around a stay by our point-of-view character, the eponymous witcher, at a temple while recuperating from his latest fight. The stories are mostly (all?) retellings of / inspired by well known fairy stories, like Beauty and the Beast. They sha......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on May 17, 2012

Think about a fantasy book. Think about your favorite fantasy book. Chances are, it included elves or maybe dwarves. It probably had knights or something like them. It was, most likely, heavily influenced by Tolkien, or his successors, and it was probably based, at least in part, on a certain Anglo-......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on April 07, 2017

Last summer I became completely obsessed with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where I took screenshots like this: (Add me on Steam!) And once I was finished with the DLC I knew I had to finally read the books to fill the void I now carry in my heart. This book was translated from Polish to English. It contai......more

Goodreads review by jessica on July 24, 2020

i accidentally watched the entire first season of β€˜the witcher’ on netflix friday night and now i have a new obsession??? i wish i had decided to wait to watch the show until after i read this, because i think i would have gotten so much more out of it, but im in that early obsessive stage where i do......more

Goodreads review by Teodora on October 27, 2023

See this? 🌊🌊🌊 This is the whole wave created by this series. And there is me, riding the wave with all of you: πŸ„β€β™€οΈ Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺 In The Last Wish there are six stories, all knotted together by The Voice of Reason chapters. Those chapters were, in fact, happening in t......more


Quotes

"This is a series you can sink your teeth into."β€”BuzzFeed News

"Delightful, intense, irreverent, and compelling....you have to read The Witcher books because they are rife with all of the elements that make you love fiction, and especially fantasy, in the first place....In a word, The Witcher delivers."β€”Hypable