The Lady of the Lake

I loved it. Feel so sad the story is over.

I really liked the first 3 books; number 4 was slow; this one was tough to finish. Only to see the ending did I press on.***Spoiler***My main complaint is there was so much build up that never went anywhere:- the prophecy about the child Ciri was supposed to have to change the world- Nilfgaard + Cintra+ northern war conclusion. So the Emperor/Duny is an ok guy who marries the impersonator and lives happily ever after? I am so unfulfilled. So many pages read for him to just ride off.- how dare he kill all the witchers friends so nonchalantly. Could at least Cahir or Regis lived? They were great characters. I thought Cahir + Ciri would have some epic conclusion but..nope- the time jumping! Gah! I could barely follow his story jumping to times + characters we don't give a rat's butt about! Final book should have been focused on the Witcher and crew.- The final ending...Ciri just lives in Camelot now? Annnd what about her world that I just spent weeks reading about? Just.... so frustrating!!!

The book was all over the place with irrelevant stories.. All I wanna read about is Geralt and his companions. All the books before this I thought the story with Geralt and his companions was 4-5 stars.... It did get annoying when the book would have 10 pages talking about the politics of the world.<!!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!> <!!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!> <!!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!>The story line with Jarre was okay, but the whole Ciri travelling to different realities was really weird. The beginning of the book made no sense to me. Was she in our reality or what? One of the last parts was really cheesy. "I wanna see the Sun," C'mon man. Then Geralt's fight with a mob... He's fought much worst opponents and decimated them... When the series introduced "The Lodge of Sorceresses" I was excited to see what kind of crazy stories they would have but yet those parts seemed to be one of the most boring and annoying. Overall the series was really good, Except for this last book. Very disappointing ending, I'm so glad CD Projekt Red took a new turn and made this fantasy world spectacular. All 3 of the Witcher games' stories are a 10/10 for me... These books really changed the way I thought of some characters. Dandelion is great, Triss is amazing, and Geralt's dwarf friends are awesome. The biggest change of my opinion would have to be Yennefer though. I really disliked Yennefer after reading the books and finding out more about her personality/past... and finding out what she really is behind all that magical make-up lol

I really enjoyed the first three books but started struggling with the fourth book and literally wanted to take the 5th book and toss it in the fireplace and ask for my money back. When the protagonists of the story(two main ones and 4 lesser ones) are relegated to less than 20% of the book, when the author writes 30 pages concerning battles which have no real place in the plot and another 30 pages in dialogue concerning a peace treaty with characters I dont even recognize and really could care less about, at this point I started realizing that perhaps the author is getting paid by the word. Did you really need to bump off in totally careless and undramatic prose 3 characters in the 5th book of the main group of five other than the author was just tired of them and decided what heck I’ll just kill them off. None of the magic in all five books was of anything more than killing people and for vengeance. Why would you introduce 10-15 new characters in book 5 who I could care less about and have really nothing to with the main story. The main plot of all 5 books was concerning the odyssey of the two main protagonist was lost somewhere in unrelated incidents, unimportant characters and general uncaring prose by an author who seemed to care more about the number of words he wrote than maintaining a coherent plot. Then to add insult to injure this has author has book 6 coming out, God forbid.

Just like I feared. Series stories always seem to forget about their "legend" and instead of telling a good story through to the end they screw it all up. The style of this writing is so different from the other books it seems like someone else finished it. Chapters start way in the future with side characters telling the story, writing it down, or it being studied way in the future. It ruins the flow of the story because all of these unessesssary characters appear, you know who survives and who dies, there is WAY too much writing about the war movements and battles because it doesnt move the story along, too many characters to keep track of so they get killed off in meaningless ways. They dont even accomplish anything, their deaths mean nothing so why bring them in at all? The big reveal of who the emperor is....is just stupid. Ciri is a wretched main character... I want to slap her more than anything, really dont care at all what happens to her at this point. It's one meaningless adventure full of crap decisions one after the other, the legend is just dumped (like in GoT) and everyone dies and Ciri goes to Camelot with Sir Galahad. Seriously. Who was high when he wrote this crap? One of the worst endings ever.