I still can't believe Serbia got one of the first translations, hell it seems it may be even the first one outside of Poland, how the hell does Sapkwoski and the publisher think of making any money with not translating the books to English and other major European languages? There's money to be grabbed there. I'm willing to bet no more than 100ish people are gonna buy this book in whole ex-Yugoslavia not just Serbia.
Anyway, for the first read I liked the book but, there is just way to much happening in it to be kind of discarded or barely referenced in the later novels. It just feels way to big and not to mention that Sapkwoski really can't decide anymore on the limits of Sorcerrers.
In this none of them even attempts to read people's minds, and there is a lot of situations where it would have helped them. However it seems they can create or do pretty much anything now(with magic-genetics), some of them even foretell future. The only obstacle apparently is they themselves in conflicts. I guess that really irks me.
Also the mention of Cat witchers has kind of brought more confusion than any really lore depth, without the mention of them the book would have been just fine, this way it's seems unnecessary in this state.
P.S.
Geralt uses his Signs in this novel probably more than in all of the future ones combined...
EDIT:
Also at one point it felt like Sapkowski was cashing in on the whole Geralt's unusual friendship with a vampire thing, in a way...