After reading The Last Wish and then The Sword of Destiny, this book feels like it started hard and went on completely.

The setting is completely ready in a very satisfying way by the first two books, but is smart enough to still have a lot of things to wonder so it feels wider and full of things to discover, which makes it so interesting. After short stories, this feel good to start because we've seen glimpses of the life of our protagonists and is like "my body is ready" for the novel.

I really like Sapkowski's writing and here it can shine better than in the short stories. Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer are endearing characters, but still flawed so they're humans, independent of what kind of human they can be. I love the parts with training! Those are my favourite parts and I'm so eager to keep on discovering how things progress, what new dangers come and what is going to happen to our MC (and Jaskier, of course).