![]() ![]() Sapkowski moves the plot quickly amid a welter of names and lightly sketched histories, giving the world depth but also confusing the reader at times. ![]() Before it's adapted as season 3 of The Witcher, we review it chapter by chapter. French's translation piles on clich s and contemporary English slang ("raining cats and dogs," "have a butchers") to play up Sapkowski's fondness for anachronisms such as mages arguing over the killing of endangered species. Time of Contempt is the second book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher saga. Ciri is forced to flee on her own through an unreliable portal, facing a variety of ordeals while Geralt searches for her. ![]() The Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis sends hunters to pursue Ciri and to disrupt a conclave of mages while his troops roll over his squabbling neighbors. 9780316451550 Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Description In hardcover for the first time comes the second novel in the Witcher saga by bestselling author Andrzej Sapkowski, in which Geralt of Rivia sends his ward Ciri to train with the sorceress Yennefer, even as trouble stirs within the Wizards Guild. Geralt, the Witcher (a magic-boosted warrior), and his beloved, the sorceress Yennefer, try to protect Princess Cirilla, heir to a conquered land, from the Empire of Nilfgaard as it attempts to absorb all the Northern Kingdoms. This crowded sequel to the Polish bestseller Blood of Elves mashes up political intrigues, military maneuvers, magic duels, and monster hunts. ![]()
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