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When I began reading the Witcher Saga, as I made progress through the series a fear began to grow in me. Although I dismissed it at first, now I've come to the realisation that it was true. Sapkowski had a story big enough for a novella and stretched it over five books.

The book starts well and one gets the false sense of hope that the book is finally getting somewhere after the disaster of the previous books. But one soon realises that despite turning page after page we get no where because there really was nowhere to go to begin with. The witcher, briefly in action slumps back into a moaning child who is anything but a fearsome warrior I had imagined him to be.

Ciri on the other hand is a puzzle. I am not sure what her intended destiny is or in which direction she was meant to take, but it this book she is everywhere. No amount of logic helped me figure out how a girl who was happily playing bandit for no apparent reason, suddenly insists she's a witcher and decides to take on a difficult task which is not even a task for the witcher. At the end of the story her story line reaches such absurdity that I am afraid there will be no recovery from it.

The narration plays out interestingly in this book and PoV is switched between characters as well as storylines. Although this is an interesting take and many times creates an entertaining interplay between characters and situations, at time this can be quite confusing to grasp without several re reads.

Overall this is a disappointing read. The extra star is purely out of sentiment, for fond adventures of old and in hope for new adventures that will never come to be.