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The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (Paperback, 2007)

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Author: Andrzej Sapkowski ISBN 10: 0575077824. Title: The Last Wish (GOLLANCZ S.F.) Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Publisher: Gollancz ISBN 13: 9780575077829. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.

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Geralt de Riv is a sorceleur, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety. He meets incestuous kings with vampire daughters, vengeful genies, rancorous maidens, shrieking harpies and despondent ghouls: some are merely wicked, many are pernicious and some are pitiful. One reviewer said: 'This book is a sheer delight. It is beautifully written, full of vitality and endlessly inventive: its format, with half a dozen episodes and intervening rest periods for both the hero and the reader, allows for a huge range of characters, scenarios and action. It's thought-provoking without being in the least dogmatic, witty without descending to farce and packed with swordfights without being derivative. The dialogue sparkles; characters morph almost imperceptibly from semi-cliche to completely original; nothing is as it first seems. Sapkowski succeeds in seamlessly welding familiar ideas, unique settings and delicious twists of originality: his Beauty wants to rip the throat out of a sensitive Beast; his Snow White seeks vengeance on all and sundry, his elves are embittered and vindictive. He has some of the best vampires ever, his battles are fast and vicious, fights are brutal and anything but gentlemanly. It's easily one of the best things I've read in ages.'