Just finished Bouřková sezóna, Sezon Burz, Season of Storms, an hour ago
Yeah, Sapkowski still got it. It is a new book after some 14 years since the last Witcher book was written. It takes place just before the short story "The Witcher" - the short story where Geralt manages to cancel the curse on Foltest's daughter Adda and turn her from striga into human girl. CD Projekt has shown main part of this short story in the intro of Witcher 1. This was afaik the first Witcher short story that Sapkowski ever wrote, so this new novel flowing into it is a very cool touch. Anyway, it was as good as I hoped, humorous, sexy, violent with expertly described Geralt's bad-assery...I hope english version will come out soon, it is so awesome and deserves to be read by as many people as possible (I read CZ version, we have amazing translator fortunately). Has anyone else here read it ? What do you think about it? About the ending? I found it quite touching. And somewhat ambiguous, like Sapkowski likes to do. I wonder if CD Projekt implemented any nods to Season of Storms for Witcher 3. It would be cool to meet Mozaik, for example. There were some incredibly atmospheric chapters in there. The whole sailing through swamps while hunted by illusion casting Aguara, for example. Or Geralt's journey into the heart of the mountain to kill Sorel Degerlund..that was so masterfully written.
I love the fact that the book was very much about Geralt. There weren't many pages that he would be missing on. It was like one of the short stories, but meatier, longer and more epic.
Before Season of Storms, I read Last Wish (which I also recommend, and it already has english version) and will follow up with Sword of Destiny and then the novel saga...and then finally I will replay Witcher 2 and import that save into Witcher 3. So excited